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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her - her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking secrets could June's once-stately mansion hold?Soon Jack's famous daughters come knocking, determined to wrestle Cassie away from the inheritance they feel is their due. Together, they all come to discover the true reasons for June's silence about that long-ago summer, when Hollywood came to town, and June and Jack's lives were forever altered by murder, blackmail, and betrayal. As this page-turner shifts deftly between the past and present, Cassie and her guests will be forced to reexamine their legacies, their definition of family, and what it truly means to love someone, steadfastly, across the ages. - PopSugar, included on holiday gift list
About the Author
I write novels. My fifth, Fierce Little Thing, a literary psychological thriller, is about a group of five friends raised on a commune-turned-cult in rural Maine, and the terrible thing they do in a last ditch effort to try to save it. Twenty-plus years later, they're scattered to the wind, but someone blackmails them back to the land, where they have to decide how far they'll go to silence them. I've heard the book described as The Girls meets The Interestings, with a bit of I Know What You Did Last Summer thrown in-- and I'll take it!My New York Times bestseller Bittersweet, my play on a modern gothic thriller, is about an outsider who is invited to her idea of paradise-- a lakeside retreat in rural Vermont. But when she digs deeper into her host family's storied past, she discovers some dark secrets, risking her own life. I wrote Bittersweet for people like me, who love The Secret History and The Emperor's Children; it's a literary beach read.My fourth novel, June, is about what happens when Hollywood came to a small town in Ohio in the fifties-- and the legacy of that summer on those character's descendants fifty years later.
