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Like any good bartender, Linney Conroy has learned the art of keeping secrets. And like any struggling blue-collar town, Leighton has more than its fair share.

Linney even has one of her own: that her father, a former heavyweight boxing champ, has spent the past several years on a slow decline towards dementia. Now his dream of running a bar is hers, whether she wants it or not, along with the burden of keeping both it and their lives from falling apart.

When quiet, scarred newcomer Miles Coulter makes a regular of himself at Conroy's, Linney can't help but be compelled by someone with no town history -- and seemingly with no history at all. But Miles carries baggage of his own: Eleven years in a coma, a family and a life that forgot him, and a world that moved on while he slept.

Miles hopes to put himself back together in a town where no one forgets anything, but when the ghosts of his past start haunting Linney, she realizes there are other, bigger secrets he's running from.

Nicole Lombardi (N.M. Lombardi) is a Philadelphia-area writer with a lifelong interest in crafting short, impactful fiction and original fables. In addition to writing, Nicole enjoys traditional and digital art, photography, animal rescue, travel and home improvement. Nicole lives in Abington, PA with her husband Marc and more-or-less four cats.