Reformed bad girl Journey Durant has just received the news that her ex-boyfriend is about to be released from prison. She can't shake the feeling that her troubled past is coming home with him. The town of Emerson, Georgia has forgiven and forgotten her involvement in the most publicized tragedy in the town's history but only because of her three year absence, her prominent Southern Baptist family, and her marriage to the closest thing her small town has to a superhero.Bullets and emotions fly, leaving Journey to realize that no matter what penance she has done for her past, the mistakes of her youth still carry unpaid penalties, and her father's words reverberate in her mind: Someday you'll have to lie in the bed you've made.