The Ebony Swan

Twentyfive years ago, Susan Prentice lost her mother to a tragic accident. Now she is returning home for the first time to Virginias eastern shores and the ancestral house whose front steps her mother fell down to her death.Though Susan has little memory of the accident, her arrival has alarmed those who fear what may lie dormant in Susans memory. But it is her maternal grandmother, Alex Montoro, a proud, intense, aging doyenne of the ballet, who believes that that memory must be unlocked. For Susan is the only living witness to the tragedyand Alex suspects that her daughters fall was no accident.