Unable to fully comprehend the complexities of adult life in Marietta, Ohio, during the Great Drepression, the narrator and Valentine, two twelve-year-old girls, inadvertently precipitate a violent conclusion to a smouldering scene of betrayal...
Eight women who were complete strangers become neighbors when they move to Country Club Drive, an exclusive new suburb developed by J.P. Scott, the wealthiest man in a small Ohio Valley town. WWII is over; business is booming; families are reunited; ...