Promise Made

September 15, 2009
In the gripping second installment in Soles Family Feud saga (The Lie, 2009), its nearly a year after World War II ended, and Frances is relieved that her husband, Marcus, an RAF ace, is finally coming home. Married five years earlier, they havent seen much of each other, and shes tired of her father-in-laws constant innuendo. But Marcuswithdrawn, angry, often drunkis not the man he used to be, and ends up having a blowout with his father that has disastrous consequences. Meanwhile, Frances sister Emily is still living with her husbands family after her husbands untimely death, unaware that her father-in-law, Lord Vane, is becoming increasingly fixated on her. But little does he know that Emily is hiding a terrible secret from him. As life resumes postwar, Frances and Emily are powerless to control the events happening around them and within their embattled family.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)