The Homecoming Alibi

A Small-Town Romantic Mystery of Buried Secrets and Second Chances (Morrow Bend Secrets)Fifty-five years ago, seventeen-year-old Mickey Rowan fell from the Morrow Bend High press box on homecoming night. His death was ruled an accident, and the town stopped asking questions.Now the Class of 1972 has come home-and a handwritten confession hidden for decades has surfaced.Fred Jones expected reunion week to bring familiar faces and old stories. He did not expect Maggie Whitcomb, the first love he never quite forgot. Maggie, a meticulous archivist, has returned to organize the class records and make peace with a past neither of them handled well.When a forgotten photograph, an altered school log, and the confession refuse to fit together, Fred and Maggie begin retracing Mickey’s final minutes. Their search exposes a secret affair, a promising athlete’s carefully protected future, and a chain of lies reaching into the present. Someone in Morrow Bend has guarded the truth for fifty-five years, and will not surrender it quietly.As old feelings rekindle, Fred and Maggie must decide whether they can trust one another with the evidence-and with the second chance neither expected.The Homecoming Alibi is Book Three in the Morrow Bend series, blending a warm later-in-life romance with a suspenseful small-town mystery. It can be enjoyed as a standalone story.