With her mother, Haille, and stepfather dead in tragic accidents, Melody has only just begun to find a safe mooring with the Logans, her secretive relatives on Cape Cod. But when a friend spots a photograph of Haille modeling in a catalogue, it seems possible that she didn't perish in a Californian fire after all.
Melody's dream of finding her mother comes true. But why has her mother pretended not to recognise her? Why is she living with the loathsome Archie Marlin? And, most importantly, why did she fake her own death?
Melody is determined to find out. For only in her mother's world of unkept promises and tattered fantasies will she unearth the shattering truth about her past . . .
