About the book (from the author's own website)
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the very literal family skeleton stays buried or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neat and on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 14-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
The
ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the
Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly
mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to
solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task,
but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a
frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel
sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations
about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and
the girl who stopped swimming.
That sounds so good that I want to go out and buy it instead of waiting to see if I win, but I'll wait. :(. I'm in need of a good book at the moment. I'm kind of in a rut and want so desperately to get out of it. We shall see!!
