Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the go-getting honor roll student, while Nicky--always restless, and more than a little reckless--was the opposite of her ambitious little sister.For a while, they both appeared to find happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young Cleveland attorney Adam Macintosh, and gave birth to a baby boy, Ethan. The sisters became virtual strangers.Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different--and Chloe is married to Adam. When he's murdered at the couple's East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson's biological mother--her estranged sister, Nicky--back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.