L D Jacobson

D a R K H a P P E N I N G S L D Jacobson

Brian Tarpley and Molly Mitchell embarked on their senior year of high school together as summer ended in 1984 - a summer of bonfires, field parties and jumping off a diving raft into the midnight waters of their fading childhood. Rebecca Tate was a six-year-old girl who enjoyed staying up late with her older sister and turning dead autumn leaves into art projects. As fall turned to winter and winter to spring 1985, a shadow fell across all of them - a shadow darker and colder than the harsh Michigan winter - leaving Brian and Molly's love for each other irrevocably altered and a precocious little girl missing. Thirty years later a discovery is made beneath a vacant parking lot near Detroit - a discovery that will bring these three together again. First loves often burn the hottest and, although they may diminish over time, the embers are rarely extinguished completely. Mixed in with those embers are the painful truths of what happened that year - painful truths that have left indelible marks on so many lives - in a spring of dark happenings.