The pandemic has finally ended.

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Ingrid Cloud, a lifelong resident of Juniper, SC, and a retired sex education teacher, must face personal demons she has ignored for twenty years.

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She must, because it is her only chance to survive.

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A shopaholic--but only at yard sales, where she purchases only the best bargains--Ingrid balances a new romance with Jerome, the owner of an antique shop, and a friendship with Bobbi Jo, a former student and now a trans woman who shops with Ingrid every Saturday morning. 

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But lately, Ingrid has been experiencing a disturbing sense of dread--a premonition that Fritz, her ex-husband, is out for revenge!

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When the body of the mayor's wife is discovered in Saxe Gotha, a submerged village preserved at the bottom of the state's largest lake, Ingrid realizes she is left with a horrible choice.

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Either she dies...

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...or she shares the history of her first marriage with strangers who can help her live to enjoy her second.

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