"Mallory Carlisle has her hands full dealing with financial troubles she's determine to hide, an absentee husband, two active daughters, and a family whose demands for loyalty border on the obsessive. Yet the most devastating secret of all--the one her family is desperate to keep buried--is the one that lurks in Mallory's subconscious. One day at a family gathering, long-suppressed memories come to the surface--forcing her, at last, to confront unbearable...

Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages...