What Happens in Montana

A girlfriend’s reunion at a haunted, holistic hot springs retreat in Montana leads to spilled secrets and betrayal, but does it also lead to murder?

Whiskey-swigging Maude Reeves, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead of long-haired hippies who refuse to wear deodorant. Maude's world is turned upside down when one of the ladies who arrives for the reunion bears a striking resemblance to her late daughter. Though Maude prefers the company of her dog and the ghost who haunts the retreat to regular, annoying humans, she finds herself helplessly drawn to these women, who are nothing like the usual hippies who visit the retreat.

Brooke, feisty, adventurous, and a bit reckless, proposes the reunion at the retreat with her best friends to get away from the chaos of her life. One of those friends, Tracy, has devoted her life to her children and her husband despite her excruciating boredom. But a long-held secret could threaten these friendships she holds most dear. Haunting the place is a ghost who, in life, dealt with tragedy by turning to prostitution which led to her murder over 100 years ago at the very place they all are staying. 

What Happens in Montana explores friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness with blunt truth and witty insights. Together, these friends learn to navigate empty nests, infidelity, deception, and poltergeists.