From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy.
Stunned by her recently widowed fatherâs reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new worldâwhere the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all.
Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. Sheâs met the love of her life, and theyâre getting married with a baby on the way. Thatâs the moment her father makes his own jaw-dropping announcement: at sixty, heâs getting married as well, to Frankieâs best friend, Ariel, who is also pregnant, and due soon.
As Frankie and Ariel struggle to adjust to their new relationship, Arielâs estranged mother, Carlotta, returns after a decade-long absence. She claims to be a changed womanâbut is she really? And where has she been all these years? Frankie is suspicious, and as Carlottaâs unpredictable behavior intensifies, Frankie must untangle the threads of the past to protect Arielâs futureâand her own.
"The characters and relationships are all smartly drawn, and the narrative is shot through with plenty of humor and scandal. Mitchard fans will lap this up."âPublishers Weekly