The Second Sister: Library Edition

From the author of the much-loved Cobbled CourtQuilts series comes her first stand-alone novel in several years--a deep andtouching story that retains the themes of sisterhood and female friendship thather fans cherish but centers on weightier, real-life issues that will drawa new audience of women's fiction readers.When her estranged sister dies, political campaignadvisor Lucy Toomey returns to their small hometown. Lucy's sister Alice, whosuffered from a mental disability, lived a quiet but rich life in Nilson's Bay.Part of her eccentric will stipulates that Lucy must take up temporaryresidence in the house before she can inherit it. Soon Lucy meets her latesister's friends, a lively group of women who meet regularly to quilt together.Daphne Olsen is a single mother of four daughters.Rinda Charles is a chain-smoking, Bible-touting African American woman and arecovering alcoholic. And finally, there's Celia Van Damm, a gay art teacherwho's unlucky in love. Lucy is drawn into their lives and begins to confronther own past, as well as the guilt that kept her estranged from her sister forso long.