A Washington Post and Sun Sentinel Best Book of the Year
âOne hell of a rip-roaring read.ââ Seattle Review of Books
âCunning. . . . Get ready to be led down the garden path to a conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicist might have to be called in.â â Washington Post
From Alafair BurkeâNew York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wifeâ comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sistersâone the dead manâs widow, the other his exâmust set aside mistrust and old resentments ... but can they escape their past?
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nickyâalways restless and more than a little recklessâwas 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 that 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 differentâand Chloe is married to Adam. When heâs murdered by an intruder at the coupleâs East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenage stepsonâs biological motherâher estranged sister, Nickyâback into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his fatherâs death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.