In an emotionally rich and captivating new novel, New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick reunites three sisters whose deep bond is rooted in an unconventional past.
Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their motherโs narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasnโt been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three โtest tubeโ daughtersโgifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Averyโwere engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest lives fall far short of her grand ambitions. But now, twenty years after the bookโs release, she hopes to redeem herself by taking part in a new documentary.
Meg, who hasnโt picked up a paintbrush in years, adamantly refuses to participate, until a car accident leaves her with crushing medical bills. While she recuperates in Seattle, the three sisters reluctantly meet with filmmaker Hal Seeger, another former prodigy. Like them, heโs familiar with the weight of failed potential. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers secrets theyโve hidden from each otherโand a revelation that will challenge their beliefs, even as it spurs them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
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