The Secret Sister (Fairham Island, #1)

by Brenda Novak

Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal--and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who's asked her to come home. But she refuses to stay in the family house. The last person she wants to see is the wealthy, controlling mother she escaped years ago. Instead, she finds herself living next door to someone else she'd prefer to avoid--Rafe Romero, the wild, reckless boy to whom she lost her virginity at sixteen. He's back on the island, and to her surprise, he's raising a young daughter alone. Maisey's still attracted to him, but her heart's too broken to risk ... Then something even more disturbing happens. She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl, a child Keith remembers, too. Maisey believes the girl must've been their sister, but their mother claims there was no sister. Maisey's convinced that child existed. So where is she now?

• ISBN10: 1460382307
• ISBN13: 9781460382301
• Publish Date: 1 August 2015 (first published 28 July 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Mira Books
• Format: eBook
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of The Secret Sister from MIRA via Netgalley in exchange of an honest and unbiased review*

The Secret Sister is simply fabulous! The mystery unfolds slowly, and the characters are very complex, and Josephine is the kind of mother I'm so happy I didn't have growing up - and even later.

Full review to come soon.

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