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SAVE MONEY!! $1.25 SHIPPING FOR EACH ADDITIONAL PAPERBACK OR $2.50 FOR EACH HARDBACK BOOK YOU BUY FROM ME, THERE ARE EVEN SOME THAT SHIP FOR FREE. AT THE CENTER OF HER NOVEL IS KAY LANSING, WHO HAS GROWN UP IN ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, DAUGHTER OF THE LANDSCAPER TO THE WEALTHY AND POWERFUL CARRINGTON FAMILY. THEIR MANSION - A HISTORIC SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MANOR HOUSE TRANSPORTED STONE BY STONE FROM WALES IN 1848 - HAS A HIDDEN CHAPEL. ONE DAY, ACCOMPANYING HER FATHER TO WORK, SIX-YEAR-OLD KAY SCUCCUMBS TO CURIOSITY AND SNEAKS INTO THE CHAPEL. THERE, SHE OVERHEARS A QUARREL BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN WHO IS DEMANDING MONEY FROM HIM. WHEN SHE SAYS THAT THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME, HIS CAUSTIC REPONSE IS: "I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE". THAT SAME EVENING, THE CARRINGTONS HOLD A FROMAL DINNER DANCE AFTER WHICH PETER CARRINGTON, A STUDENT AT PRINCETON, DRIVES HOME SUSAN ALTHROP, THE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF NEIGHBORS.W WHILE HEER PARENTS HEAR HER COME IN, SHE IS NOT IN HER ROOM THE NEXT MORNING AND IS NEVER SEEN OR HEARD FROM AGAIN. THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, A CLOUD OF SUSPICION HANGS OVER PETER CARRINGTON. AT AGE FORTY-TWO, HEAD OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS EMPIRE, HE IS STILL "A PERSON OF INTEREST" IN THE EYES OF THE POLICE, NOT ONLY FOR SUSAN ALTHORP'S DISAPPEARANCE BUT ALSO FOR THE SUBSEQUENT DROWNING DEAT OF HIS OWN PREGNANT WIFE IN THEIR SWIMMING POOL. KAY LANSING, NOW LIVING IN NEW YORK AND WORKING AS A LIBARIAN IN ENGLEWOOD, GOES TO SEE PETER CARRINGTON TO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO HOLD A COCKTAIL PARTY ON HIS ESTATE TO BEEFIT A LITERACY PROGRAM, WHICH HE LATER GRANTS. KAY COMES TO SEE PETER AS MALIGNED AND MISUNDERSTOOD, AND WHEN HE BEGINS TO COURT HER AFTER THE COCKTAIL PARTY, SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM. OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF HER BELOVED GRANDMOTHER MARGARET O'NEIL, WHO RAISED HER AFTER HER PARENTS' EARLY DEATSH, SHE MARRIES HIM. TO HER DISMAY, SHE SOON FINDS THAT HE IS A SLEEPWALKER WHOSE NOCTURNAL WANDERINGS DRAW HIM TO THE SPOT AT THE POOL WHERE HIS WIFE MET HER END. SUSAN ALTHROP'S MOTHER, GLADYS, HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONVINCED THAT PETER CARRINGTON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DAUGHTER'S DISAPPEARANCE, A BELIEF SHARED BY MANY IN THE COMMUNITY. DISREGARDING HER HUSBAND'S PROTESTS ABOUT REOPENING THE CASE, GLADYS, NOW TERMINALLY ILL, HAS HIRED A RETIRED NEW YORK CITY DETECTIVE TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER DAUGHTER. GLADYS WANTS TO KNOW BEFORE SHE DIES. KAY, TOO, HAS DEVELOPED GNAWING DOUBTS ABOUT HER HUSBAND. SHE BELIEVES THAT THE KEY TO THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE LIES IN THE SCENE SHE WITNESSED AS A CHILD IN THE CHAPEL AND KNOWS SHE MUST LEARN THE IDENTIRY OF THE MAN AND WOMAN WHO QUARRELED THERE THAT DAY. YET, SHE PLUNGES INTO THIS PURSUIT REALIZING THAT "THAT KNOWLEDGE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE HER HUSBAND'S LIFE, IF INDEED IT DESRVES TO BE SAVED." WHAT KAY DOES NOT EVEN REMOTELY SUSPECT IS THAT UNCOVERING WHAT LIES BEHIND THESE MEMORIES MAY COST HER HER OWN LIFE. THIS BOOK IS IN LIKE NEW CONDITION. THE PAGES ARE CRISP AND CLEAN, THE BINDING IS TIGHT. THE CORNERS ARE SHARP. NO SHELF WEAR. THE DUST JACKET IS ALSO IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE OF $25.95 ON THE FRONT INSIDE COVER. A GREAT GIFT CHOICE FOR ANYONE! DO YOU NEED TO GET A GREAT GIFT FOR THAT SPECIAL OCCASION? CHECK OUT OUR GIFT QUALITY CATEGORY IN OUR WE HAVE MANY MORE MARY HIGGINS CLARK NOVELS IN OUR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS NEED TO GET A COMBINED SHIPPING QUOTE FROM ME BEFORE MAKING A PURCHASE. IF YOU ARE COMBINING PURCHASES FOR SHIPMENT, PLEASE WAIT FOR ME TO SEND YOU A INVOICE BEFORE PAYING, I'LL NEED TO ADJUST YOUR SHIPPING TOTAL WE HAVE OVER 3,800 ADDITIONAL BOOKS, AND WE LIST MORE DAILY IN OUR Check out my other items!
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