Judy H. (hart2hart) reviewed on 11/13/2006 + 711 more book reviews

A young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever---her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. At age twenty-eight, a successful interior designer, she marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster, and they have a son. Before their marriage, she revelas to him her true identity. Two years later, on his deathbed, he makes her swear never to tell anyone so that their son, Jack, will not carry the stigma of her past. Two years later, Celia is happily remarried. Her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband, Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift---the house in Mendham, New Jersey, where she killed her mother.

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