A Novel

And then, without any prior warning, Hertha tossed the grenade. 

“Ah,” she said to Annette. “So you’re the handicapped girl that Frau Charlotte brought back from Switzerland?”

What???

Annette and I looked at the guest, completely flabbergasted.

The handicapped girl that Frau Charlotte brought back from Switzerland?

“What is so difficult to understand?” the royal guest asked, gazing at us haughtily. “Ah, I understand,” she chortled loudly, “you simply want to keep it a secret… Well, you will not succeed… Oma told me long ago that Frau Charlotte has only one daughter, but she adopted a miserable, handicapped girl that she found in Switzerland.”

So said Hertha, and then she stood up elegantly, raised the hem of her long dress slightly, and primly stepped out of our room, leaving two shocked girls behind.

Annette and Caroline are best friends, and non-identical twins, or maybe they’re just sisters— until one day they’re not even that. Follow them as they unravel the past and struggle to build a future, despite the roiling secrets…

New from the bestselling author of Thanks to Her and Once a Bride.

By Ruti Tanenwald