NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A well-told story of love and redemption” (The Washington Post Book World) from the bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs
 
“A polished gem of a novel . . . lovingly crafted, beautifully written.”—The Miami Herald
 
Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard house on the Blessing estate...

When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization.

As an eighteenth-century Englishwoman without property rights, Beatrice is destined to lose what she loves most--her fammily's ancestral estate, Wideacre--unless her ambitious schemes succeed.

"If a relationship is a secret you shouldn't be in it... Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face our past. Back to the place where, as carefree teenagers, we lost our elder sister in the most brutal of circumstances. As executors of our grandmother's will, my twin brother, Ollie, and I needed to empty the house for resale. What I didn't expect to discover was my dead sister's secret journal...