Friends with Secrets

by Christine Gunderson

School-supply shopping was a treasure hunt where you paid $100 to participate and the prize at the end was unfocused anger and a gigantic headache.

She examined the teachers as they went through the line. Hardworking, respectable women and a few men. How would they look at her if they knew she’d once pranced around in a G-string for money? How would they look at her children?

She’d created a life as fragile as a tower of feathers, and Wyatt Jericho could destroy it all with a single breath.

guilty. It kissed the back of her neck, issuing a subtle warning. Ainsley had something to hide.

By the time she got home, she had shed Tami Darlene Schmidt like a skin and transformed back into Ainsley, the

How could she expect her husband to accept her past when she couldn’t accept it herself?