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Four years ago, Ashley Delaney Hale-McCall disappeared from Beacon Hills without saying goodbye. At seventeen, Ashley discovered she was pregnant. Terrified and unsure of what her family would think, she ran away to London, where she gave birth to a beautiful little girl named Arabella. Now eighteen, Ashley has finally returned home with her four-year-old daughter. Back in Beacon Hills, Ashley is reunited with her two fathers, Scott Hale-McCall and Derek Hale-McCall, and surrounded by the family and friends who are determined to help her and Arabella start over. But coming home isn’t as easy as Ashley hoped. Especially when the past is still waiting for her. Brett Talbot, now twenty, has no idea Ashley is back in town. He has no idea she has a daughter. And he certainly doesn’t know that the little girl Ashley has been raising for four years is connected to him. Brett has built a new life for himself and is now dating Tracy Stewart, who immediately becomes suspicious of Ashley’s return. Tracy knows there was once something between Ashley and Brett, and when she sees Ashley with Arabella, she becomes convinced that Ashley has come back to Beacon Hills to get Brett back. But Ashley isn’t looking for her old life. She’s trying to protect the new one she built for her daughter. As old feelings resurface, secrets begin unraveling, and strange supernatural events once again threaten Beacon Hills, Ashley realizes that keeping the truth hidden may be impossible. Because in Beacon Hills, secrets never stay buried forever. And sooner or later, Brett is going to discover the daughter he never knew he had.