Did she once have a little sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce, Lourdes Tarkington returns to Fairham, the small island off the coast of South Carolina, where she grew up. The last person she wants to see is her controlling mother, Mimi, whom she escaped ten years ago. But her brother, Keith, is a deeply troubled man just out of rehab, and he’s asked her to come home. Now that she’s back, Lourdes finds herself living next door to someone else she prefers to avoid—Rafe Romero, the love of her teenage life, the boy who once broke her heart. He, too, is divorced, with a nine-year-old son.   As she negotiates these awkward realities of past and present, determined to heal and help her brother do the same, she finds something in her mother’s mansion that evokes distant memories of a little girl, a child Keith remembers, too. Lourdes believes that girl must’ve been their sister, and Keith can come up with