The epic tale of Scarlett O'Hara, her life, loves, and ultimate tragedy. Set against the background of the ante-bellum South, this novel chronicles the story of one family's destruction by the conflict between the states.

"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...

All the rules Special Agent Faith Mitchell learned at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were forgotten the moment she found a bloody handprint on the door of her mother's home where she had earlier left her four-month-old daughter. The child is alone in a tool shed and her mother has vanished. Faith discovers she may not know her mother as well as she thought.