Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a croswroads. She's broken off an engagement, the father who raised her has just died, and now she's leaving the western shores behind for a trip to her family's home on Virginia's Northern Neck - where she saw her mother fall to her death twenty-five years ago. There, Susan's grandmother, former ballet diva Alexandrina "Alex" Vargas Montoro, proves a formidable sentinel for the family's mysterious history. At first, welcomed by her long-estranged relatives, spied on by suspicius neighbors, and drawn to Peter, Alex's handsome young doctor, Susan has nothing but questions. But for every answer, there's a warning - and the fear that she has only Peter to trust in when even his past is shaded with murder. Soon Susan will discover that she alone holds the key to her mother's suspicious death, hidden away in her shattered memories. And someone intimately close to her is prepared to bury the truth forever
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