Keep the Door Open

You might think that twins would be close throughout their lives. Not true with Alydia and Olivia, fraternal twins whose personalities from birth were destined to clash. Keep the Door Open enfolds the reader into the lives of a family marked with betrayal, secrets, favoritism and tragedy through the mid twentieth century. Alydia who finds comfort in conformity, discovers her calling in her youth as a medium who communicates with the deceased. Olivia, labeled by her Father as a wild child, forges her own dangerous path as she balances individuality with being a twin. The youngest child, Carl, who grew up with a zest for life and an unshakeable devotion to family, finds it all crashing down on his eighteenth birthday. He learns a long-held, hidden secret that will change his life for years to come. Father is slipping away into senility and Mother, a strong nurturer, is clinging to to what she has known. Keep the Door Open will have the reader guessing its twists and turns as the Hilts family struggles to keep the family unit together.