Hard Girls

"Jane Pool thinks she likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, an infuriating mother-in-law, and a quiet, if unfulfilling, administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents' secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother is and why she left all those years ago, Jane agrees to join her, desperate for answers and the chance to reconnect with the only person who has ever known her true self. As the hunt becomes treacherous and pulls the two women to the earth's distant corners, they find themselves up against their mother's subterfuge and the darkness that has always stalked their family. Now Jane stands to lose the life she's made to the one that has been impossible to escape"--