From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake that changed a family forever, now in paperback and featuring an all-new Reading Group Guide Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in small-town Ohio, mourning the loss of her grandmother, June. But the noise of the rusted doorbell forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary movie star Jack Montgomery's fortune.
Soon Jack's famous daughters arrive, entourage in tow, determined to wrestle Cassie away from an inheritance they feel is theirs. Together, they come to discover the true reason for June's silence about the summer she was eighteen, when Hollywood came to town, and June and Jack's lives were forever altered. Shifting 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.
Author: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780553447705
About the AuthorMiranda Beverly-Whittemore is the author of three other novels:
New York Times bestseller
Bittersweet;
Set Me Free, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, given annually for the best book of fiction by an American woman; and
The Effects of Light. A recipient of the
Crazyhorse Prize in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn.