Amanda Eyre Ward\'s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.
In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant librarian, mourns her murder.
Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fianc and her carefully crafted life.
In Manhattan, Dr.
In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row.
Amanda Eyre Ward\'s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer