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In the shadow of loss, three women's lives are entangled and forever changed.
HarperCollins
February 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 0060831383
Hardcover
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Saga | Women's Fiction
Pia A strong-minded wife and mother with a
successful career, Pia finds herself suddenly widowed,
bereft of her passion for her profession -- and for life
itself. When she sends her twin sons off to college, her
reawakening begins with a chance meeting on an airplane. An
adversary she used to despise becomes a lover she can't live
without. Pia remarries. But haunted by memories and
unsettled by the shifting definition of home, she feels the
walls of her own life closing in around her.
Lily Pia's brash, tough-talking sister,
Lily, makes a tragic mistake, and the bitter consequences
leave her, unimaginably, incarcerated for seven years. With
her marriage torn apart and her heart encased in stone, her
life is now measured out, hour by hour, in the grinding
routine of prison life, punctuated by eagerly awaited phone
calls from Pia. Beth Beth is married to
Pia and Lily's brother, whom she loves. But she's never
gotten along with her sisters-in-law. When her life changes
in an instant -- transformed by the realization of a
parent's worst nightmare -- grief and anger envelop her,
further driving a wedge between her and her husband's
family. Each of these women struggles to survive
inside her own private prison, longing for a miracle. Beth,
who's never been able to face her own failure as a mother,
is finally forced to confront the truth, and when she does,
discovers that the truth sets her free. Lily finds the last
thing she expects -- love -- and, one by one, her defenses
fall until at last she's able to confide what really
happened on that terrible day. And, in search of the path
that will lead her back to herself, Pia stumbles on a hidden
antiques shop and ventures inside. Like Alice tumbling down
the rabbit hole, she is drawn into a strangely sensual
world. The store -- and its exotic owner -- opens the door
to a whole new existence, one of swirling colors and chaotic
feelings, of longing, desire, and a new lust for life.
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