The Secrets Sisters Keep
by Abby Drake

List Price: $14.99
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061878329
Publisher: Avon

Sisters should be the best of friends, but…

When it comes to family secrets, the four Dalton sisters have had more than their share. Then quirky, spirited Uncle Edward decides to throw a 75th birthday celebration and wanders off, leaving the women to face their past --- and one another.

Ellie: The eldest, tended to Uncle Edward instead of her dreams. Exasperated with his antics, aware that she's not getting any younger, is she finally ready to take off for Egypt?

Amanda: The Park Avenue snob, spent two decades raising three kids and squandering money she didn't have. Now that her husband's found a Brazilian back-waxer to take her place, will she reassess her life?

Babe: The movie-star beauty, fled New York for L.A. When she returns with her has-been actor-husband, will love and lust be reignited for her --- with someone else?

Carleen: The middle-class mom, a ninth-grade algebra teacher, quilts cloth pocketbooks for fun. Did she really once have orange hair, bad boyfriends, and an attitude? Will her sisters ever forgive her for their shattered family? Or will she be forced to tell them the truth?

And will these ladies ever be able to confront their long-buried past and act like, well, sisters again?

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1. Which of Edward Dalton's nieces would you like to have for your sister?

2. Which of the sisters' lives would you most like to have...knowing you could make it better?

3. Why do you think Carleen really stayed away from her sisters for so long? Why did Babe?

4. Have you ever "forgotten" to show a trinket, a bauble --- something decadent --- you purchased to your husband? If you showed him, were you honest about the price?

5. Like Ellie, have you ever tucked a dream away in a small box in a closet?

6. If you were Edward, would you have wandered off?

7. Name one secret you never told your sister, brother, mother, or father. Surely there at least is one!

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"Drake’s funny and wise family soaper…depicts the search for Uncle Edward and the bumpy quest for family harmony with wit and style as the sisters try to make peace with the past."

— Publishers Weekly