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A story of family... the Osbornes -- two sisters  and a brother -- united by family ties but split  apart by different dreams. Lara, the happy young  wife, longs for the family that will make her life  whole. Connie, wild and lovely, is more like her  brother Eddy -- bright, ambitious, and ready to  seize all that life has to offer. A story of  choices... Connie is looking for wealth -- to make or to  marry. Lara, staying behind in a small Ohio town,  finds everything she cherishes threatened by fate  and by her own blind commitment. And Eddy, as Wall  Street''s "wonder boy," can make  millions... if he ruthlessly uses his family and friends. A  story of marriages... Lara''s held together by  devotion, Connie''s shattered by infidelity and  betrayal, and Eddy''s rocked by shame and prison. Torn by  conflicting loyalties, they are a family caught in  the tides of scandal... and swept toward a fate  where dreams may end or be born again...

Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple  with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in  an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on  the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is  devoted to her family and good works. But in the  Ferguson''s closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must  keep from the world-and her children-at any  cost... Not even the Fergusons''s best friends, Josie and  Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn''s shame. Social worker  Josie sees her bruises distrusts the  too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause  of the children''s increasingly disturbed behavior.  But not even Josie can pierce Lynn''s wall of  silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is  forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva  Plain''s searing novel of a family''s heartbreak, a  woman''s courage, and a subject too often talked  about only in whispers.