The Birdcage

In the spirit of Lisa Jewell and Kate Morton, a haunting tale of the fateful summer when an unusual sisterhood is tested, and the summer fifteen years later when each sister will be called to account. Some secrets need to be set free. Cornwall, 1999. Teenage half-sisters Kat, Flossie, and Lauren arrive at their famous painter father's seaside mansion, ready for another forced, uneventful summer, to be capped off this year by a once-a-century total eclipse. There is an unspoken tension as the girls reacquaint themselves with the eerie estate, their enigmatic father, and their unconventional sisterhood. With the highly anticipated eclipse just around the corner, the Finch sisters and the town grow more restless. Then a murder takes place in a flurry of feathers, tearing their fragile family apart. More than a decade later, Lauren is reeling from the recent loss of her mother and is still piecing together what happened that fateful day long ago. Then she, Kat, and Flossie receive a mysterious summons from their father to return to Rock Point. As each of them are pulled back into the past, only their renewed sisterhood can reveal the shocking truth from that summer, a truth darker than any of them could have imagined. Story Locale: Cornwall, England (Rock Point)