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When Ivy Snow, a former Olympic eventing hopeful, leaves her fractured marriage behind and moves to the charming horse-country town of Wellington, she expects a fresh start. Instead, she finds a community shadowed by old money, buried secrets, and a dangerous thirst for revenge.
At forty-nine, Ivy is rebuilding her life as the publisher of Equestrian Style magazine and the mother of fraternal twins. Years after a near-fatal riding accident destroyed her Olympic dreams, she discovers that her criminal-defense-lawyer husband has been living a double life. Seeking peace in a small country town, Ivy is pulled into a nightmare of blackmail, arson, terrorism, and murder.
As a prolific arsonist terrorizes Wellington, Ivy must uncover the truth behind a steel tycoon's suspicious death and a friend's apparent suicide. The trail leads from the shores of Côte d'Ivoire to the riverbanks of Paris and into the cloistered world of America's wealthy elite.
But Ivy's greatest concern is her psychic teenage daughter, whose unsettling visions may reveal more than anyone is prepared to face.
Janet Lewis
Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as “some of the 20th century’s most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature.” Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Sören Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959), Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories (1946), and Poems Old and New (1982).
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