Kat Szmit

The Sugar House Kat Szmit

As kids growing up in Walton, New Hampshire, Penny McAllister and Ethan Dunford were nearly inseparable and a childhood friendship blossomed into love. But in 1986, days before prom, an act of unspeakable violence tore the two apart. Decades later, her parents gone, Penny has returned to ready her family homestead for sale, wanting nothing more than to lay the ghosts of the past to rest and get as far away from Walton as possible. But a mysterious visitor to the vacant backyard sugar house sets in motion a new relationship that could have Penny thinking twice about selling, especially after she learns that Ethan is still in town, and single. With a possible, new future laid out before them, can these three people finally find a path to healing among the Walton woods and sugar maples?