When nurse practitioner Avery Collins takes a job at Raker Maximum Security Penitentiary, she expects paperwork, gruff guards, and the daily grind of caring for incarcerated men. She does not expect to confront a man from her past—the first boyfriend she once loved and then helped condemn. As Avery navigates strict rules, wary colleagues, and a community that remembers old wounds, she must protect her son, manage fragile alliances, and reckon with choices that shaped both of their lives. Scent of Sandalwood is a tense, emotionally driven contemporary novel about guilt, forgiveness, and the complicated ties that bind a small town to its secrets.
When nurse practitioner Avery Collins takes a job at Raker Maximum Security Penitentiary, she expects paperwork, gruff guards, and the daily grind of caring for incarcerated men. She does not expect to confront a man from her past—the first boyfriend she once loved and then helped condemn. As Ave...