\u201c<\/b>A masterfully written saga of family drama in the vein of Celeste Ng, Liane Moriarty, and Sally Hepworth\u201d (Book Reporter<\/i>) about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves one parent\u2019s daughter dead\u2014and the other\u2019s son charged with manslaughter.<\/b><\/p>\n
Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. Yet five years in, she and Pete Conley couldn\u2019t be happier with their blended family.<\/p>\n
But one rainy Friday night, on the way back from celebrating their anniversary, Peter and Leigh receive horrific news. Peter\u2019s son Kip, a high school senior, has crashed his truck and been arrested for drunk driving. And Leigh\u2019s fourteen-year-old daughter, Chrissy, was with him.<\/p>\n
Twelve hours later, Chrissy is dead and Kip is charged with manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Reeling with grief, Leigh nonetheless does her best to rally behind Peter and Kip. That is, until Kip changes his story and claims that he wasn\u2019t driving after all\u2014Chrissy was, and he swears there is a witness.<\/p>\n
As they hurtle toward Kip\u2019s trial date, husband and wife are torn between loyalty to their children and to each other, while the mystery of what really happened that night looms large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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