Book description
Ellie Enderlin spent most of her childhood living in her sister's
shadow. Lila was the good daughter - a mathematical genius who could
do no wrong in their parents' eyes. Whereas Ellie was younger, wilder
and could never quite match up. Until one day the shape of their
family changes forever. Lila is brutally murdered. In the aftermath of
her sister's death, Ellie entrusts her most intimate feelings to a man
who betrays her utterly by turning the story into a bestselling true
crime book - a book that both devastates her family and identifies one
of Lila's professors as her killer.
Twenty years later and two Americans meet by chance in a remote
village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an
inveterate traveller and incapable of trust. Peter is the academic who
saw his career ruined by being named as Lila's killer. He protests his
innocence and leaves Ellie with a gift - the notebook that Lila
carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body.
Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the
mysteries of Lila's notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and
begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will
lead her to discover more about the lover no one knew Lila had, to the
motives and fate of the man who profited from their family's anguish -
and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other.
Michelle Richmond is the
New York Ti
mes bestselling author of
The Year of Fog
. Her award-winning stories and essays have appeared in
Glimmer
Train, Playboy, The Oxford American,
and elsewhere. She has been a James Michener Fellow, and her fiction
has received the Associated Writing Programs Award and the Mississippi
Review Prize. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives with her
husband and son in San Francisco, where she is at work on her next
novel.
