From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling
author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another
twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan
lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the dead man’s
widow, the other his ex—must set aside mistrust and old
resentments . . . but can they escape their past?
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she
always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll
student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky
was always restless . . . and more than a little
reckless—the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She
floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to
home in Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed like both sisters had found
happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League
school and moved to New York City, where she landed a
coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young
attorney Adam Macintosh, and gave birth to a baby boy they
named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are
drastically different—and Chloe is married to Adam. When
he’s murdered by an intruder at the couple’s East Hampton
beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson’s
biological mother—her estranged sister, Nicky—back into her
life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect
in his father’s death, the two sisters are forced to unite .
. . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they
have tried to bury in the past.
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