New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel. When her sister, June, is murdered in the months before Lindy is to be married, she abandons her hometown of Charlotte - her job, her fiance, her shattered family, and her shifty brother-in-law - for Galveston on the Texas coast, where her ailing grandmother has a huge Victorian home, and the chance to leave her grief behind. All that she takes with her to tie her to her old life is June's son, not yet a year old. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395926904.