In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an "unmentionable act."
Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other Peopleâs Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Guardian, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.