When her black sheep brother disappears Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in hersixteen yearold niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan motherlessand living w... » 

When her black sheep brother disappears Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in hersixteen yearold niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan motherlessand living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands in a Buick apizza joint a horse farmand regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amandaenvisions that she her husband Neil and their two teenagers can offer thegirl stability and a shot at a normal life even though their own storybooklives are about to crumble. Seventeenyearold Chase Janvier hasnt seen hiscousin in years and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life hedoesnt expect her arrival will affect him muchor interfere with his growingdisturbing interest in a longago house fire that plagues his dreamsunbeknownst to anyone else. Tally and Chase bond as they interview twoHolocaust survivors for a sociology project and become startlingly aware thatthe whole family is grappling with hidden secrets with the echoes of the pastand with the realization that ignoring tragic situations wont make them goaway. Will Tallys presence blow apart their carefullyconstructed worldknocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden pastthat could destroy them allor can she help them find the truth without losingeach other? «