Synopsis:
Muriel Dykstra discarded her friendship with Sanna
de Boer like
an old shoe when she concocted a life-changing, self-centered plot that gave her
what she wanted: Derek VanHousen. The fact that Sanna and Derek were all
but publicly engaged didn't deter Muriel. Blindly, she plunged into the
deep and murky waters of self-gratification, latching on to everything but what
she should have deemed more important than an ill-gotten husband: a clean
conscience and peace of mind.
Now, it is 1964 and Sanna is coming back to live in
Dutchville. Muriel has a tough row ahead if she's going to make what she
knows to be fiction—a happy VanHousen marriage—seem real enough to fool Sanna. Unfortunately, this effort to revive a dying
marriage must be accomplished in record time.
As if that weren't enough, the two VanHousen girls, Laura
(who is a member of the 1964 Tulip Festival's Queen's Court) and Chloe (one year
younger, chronologically, but years older in her schemes) have issues Muriel is too self-absorbed to investigate until it is
too late. There is hardly a festival in local memory when a pretty young gal
wipes tears away as she rides the Queen's float, or sobs through the evening
musical in which her sister plays a role.
Sometimes you just can't escape shadows, even shifting
shadows . . .
ISBN: 978-0-557-04790-1
(paper $14.95 ~ March 2009)
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