Cash-strapped aspiring artist Delilah Blue takes a job as a artist's nude model, just as her long-absent mother returns with a young daughter in tow and reveals a family secret that prompts Delilah to probe the muddled mind of her Alzheimer's-inflicted father in order to figure out if her mother is just plain selfish or if there is something more to the equation. Original. 30,000 first printing.