"How well do you really know your neighbors?
Jen Silver has just moved to an affluent suburb in Pennsylvania with her partner, Dan, and their daughter. It's a picture-perfect neighborhood where residents hang out on each other's patios sipping margaritas on warm summer nights. Jen and her family blend effortlessly into the close-knit community.
But Jen isn't who they think she is.
Twenty years ago, Jen's sister vanished without a trace. She's spent her life chasing the truth—and she didn't choose this community for its safety or its excellent schools.
Jen moved here for answers.
She knows the truth is here but as Jen pieces together the events of twenty years ago, someone is determined to keep the facts from coming to light.
But secrets never stay hidden forever. And the most dangerous truths lie close to home . . ."
"A compelling historical retelling of the first great scandal to shake America.
Victim? Temptress? Murderer?
October 1792. At Glentivar Plantation, Virginia, enslaved workers find the body of a white baby hidden amongst logs.
Judy and Richard Randolph along with Nancy, Judy's eighteen year old sister, are staying at the plantation. The Randolphs are one of America's most wealthy and influential families.
Screams were heard coming from Nancy's room during the night. Gossip quickly spreads throughout Virginia society: Nancy Randolph had given birth to a child by Richard, people whisper. Together they murdered the child to protect their reputation.
Richard is tried for murder and the sensational trial shakes the new American nation to its core. The events of that night ripple down the years.
Who was Nancy Randolph? A calculating seductress and murderer? Or an unwilling victim, groomed and manipulated by her devious brother-in-law?"
"Her published story is well known. But did she tell the whole truth about her ten days in the madhouse?
Down to her last dime and offered the chance of a job of a lifetime at the New York World, twenty-three-year old Elizabeth Cochrane agrees to get herself admitted to Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum and report on conditions from the inside. But what happened to her poor friend, Tilly Mayard? Was there more to her high praise of Dr. Frank Ingram than everyone knew?
Thirty years later, Elizabeth, known as Nellie Bly, is no longer a celebrated trailblazer and the toast of Newspaper Row. Instead, she lives in a suite in the Hotel McAlpin, writes a column for the New York Journal and runs an informal adoption agency for the city's orphans.
Beatrice Alexander is her secretary, fascinated by Miss Bly and her causes and crusades. Asked to type up a manuscript revisiting her employer's experiences in the asylum in 1887, Beatrice believes she's been given the key to understanding one of the most innovative and daring figures of the age.
Please note this was previously published as The Girl Puzzle."
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