The Innocents

After their mother remarries, two sisters are whisked away to Serenity Point, Connecticut—a town where it’s going to be hard to stay innocent when there are so many secrets and lies.

“Gossip Girl for Connecticut’s Gold Coast.”—Publishers Weekly

Even the innocent don't kiss and tell . . .

Though they share the same blood, Alice and Charlie couldn’t be more different. Alice is older (by one year and one day), shy and reserved, a cool blonde, a painter, a reader, a thinker. Charlie is feisty and uninhibited, a wild brunette, the kind of girl who punches a bully right in the mouth. They hate each other. They love each other. They stand by each other, when no one else will. They’re sisters.

Then their parents divorce. Their father moves across the globe. And their mother remarries so quickly they might have blinked and missed the whole thing. Richard Flood The Third is a man who looks and acts exactly as his name suggests. A man who is rich and lonely. And one who has skeletons in his closet: a previous life of which he seldom speaks, and that haunts him still.

Soon, Alice, Charlie, and their mother are leaving their old life behind. They’re saying goodbye to their cramped Cambridge apartment and driving along the rocky Connecticut coastline to Richard’s summer estate in the wealthy town of Serenity Point—a place he hasn’t returned to in over a year.

The minute they drive through the gates, they wish they never had.

Their arrival reopens old wounds; memories of lost loves, best friends, and bitter rivals. The people of Serenity Point thought the past was dead and buried.

They were wrong.