Successful attorney Molly Reid thought she had put the past behind her. But when the body of her flaky but lovable college roommate, Sarah, is discovered abandoned in a field, Molly is drawn back into the tangled incestuous world of Devereaux College. At Sarah’s wake, Molly confronts her ex-fiancé, a suddenly attentive former big-man-on-campus, the bitchy college friends who still treat Molly like the slutty wrong-side-of-the-tracks scholarship student she once was, and Sarah’s mother, who forces Molly to take Sarah’s rehab journals.
As Molly sifts through Sarah’s scrawled journal entries, she discovers Sarah was not a lovable kook but rather an intelligent, but damaged, woman. The journals become for Molly a Pandora’s Box of secrets. Will Sarah’s secrets topple Molly’s carefully constructed facade?
Genre: FICTION / Contemporary WomenJust released last month
CHAPTER ONE
May 20, 2009
I tugged on the tight black wool skirt. Two years ago, when I turned forty and divorced my husband, I did the unthinkable and banished all black from my wardrobe. Silly, really, to imagine a Park Avenue lawyer could survive without such a staple but I’d been drowning in sensible black suits for years. At the time, Sarah applauded my new fashion plans. Of course Sarah would. Her New Jersey stay-at-home-mommy wardrobe was an explosion of color and sparkle. What would Sarah say if she knew she caused the breach of my no black edict? She’d probably roll her eyes and say, “O’Connor, do you need to make everything about you?”
I climbed out of the car and tugged once more the skirt found at the back of my closet, my stomach in knots at the prospect of seeing Sarah’s husband. Her brother. All the Devereaux College alums who’d inevitably show up. In and out. I’d pay my respects and then escape over the George Washington Bridge to my real life on the Upper East Side where I was a respected lawyer and mother of two. My real life where no one remembered Molly O’Connor, the slutty scholarship student.
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