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Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie.

When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering i

When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.

Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls.

"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.