Bookseller-turned-amateur detective Delhi Laine is back with another atmospheric mystery--but this time, it's a family affair.

Nineteen years ago, Delhi Laine's two-year-old daughter disappeared. After a frantic but inconclusive search, authorities determined that she must have drowned, her body washed away from the picturesque English park in which she had been playing.

Delhi's heart has never healed, yet her family has since soldiered on. But when a mysterious letter arrives containing the ominous words Your daughter did not drown, their lives are once again thrown into turmoil. With her family torn between fighting for the past and protecting the future, Delhi is caught in the middle. For a mother, the choice to find her daughter seems easy. But for a family left fractured by the mistakes of the past, the consequences, and the reality, may be infinitely more costly.

Fans of Carolyn Hart will be swept away by this story of a family on the brink--and their hunt for the truth.

A (mostly) light-hearted "sociological study" of decades-old dilemmas about American lifestyles and how we resolved them. Or not. In the manner of Nora Ephron, Ellen Zelda Kessner shares, with humor and insight, her reflections and those of contributors Judi Culbertson and Sally Wendkos Olds, on COME-AND-GO FASHIONS in: Natural Childbirth; Teaching While Pregnant; Breastfeeding Babies; Eclectic Home Decorating; Girl Scout Cookies; Stay-at-Home Mommying; Having Kittens; Female Orgasms; Diversifying the Suburbs. In MID-CENTURY MODERNS & OUR MISHEGAS (MADNESS), Kessner also relates her often-hilarious adventures with TRY-ON CAREERS & PASTIMES: Selling Real Estate; Substitute Teaching; Writing Faux-True Confessions; Acting in Little Theatre; Writing PTA Plays; Founding a Feminist Family Theatre. Enjoy samplings of Mid-Century Madness--- and what follows---in chapters like: I WAS A NATURAL CHILDBIRTH DROP-OUT; TO BREAST FEED? OR DO THE NATURAL THING-GIVE THE BABY A BOTTLE?; WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? THE GREAT ORGASM KERFUFFLE; PERILS OF A REAL ESTATE PUSHER; GUILTY SECRETS-THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A TRUE CONFESSIONS WRITER; Plus the thought -provoking "Look who's coming to live next door to you?" story,"SPLIT FOR SALE, DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD. . ."