After a lifetime of hardship, Jessica Thornton finally has the life
she's dreamed of: a new marriage to a realtor with burgeoning success; a
daughter whose athleticism has won her a scholarship to college; and a
freshly-secured grant from her bank to finally complete her own higher
education.
Her life today is a complete reversal from the not-too-distant past,
when the death of her first husband left her penniless and desperate to
provide for her then-newborn child. But after the murder of her
children's high school classmate, a series of disturbances brings
Jessica to question whether her dreams ever actually came true, or
whether they've just been delusions all along . . .
In the days after the murder, suspicion creeps in at every corner,
beginning with Jessica's daughter and stepson, who won't tell her where
they were on that fateful night. Then she discovers that her husband's
business is failing, not growing, and that the stories he's told of
meetings with high-powered investors were nothing more than lies. And
when a private investigator comes to look into the death of her first
husband, her last foundation of truth slips suddenly away.
