The geometry of sisters

Summary: After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the surface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanished in a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident that engulfed Maura's husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, with her son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning. For fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painful upheaval from everything she has ever loved -- especially her sister, Carrie. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself -- the half that would have fit in at the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will now attend. Beck isn't alone in the struggle to adjust. At sixteen, Travis is coping with separation from the friends and teammates he left back in Ohio as well as a powerful attraction to an expensive-looking girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here -- an unresolved breach with her own sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free.

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