Its the perfect neighborhood filled with notsoperfect peopleAlyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had a stable family loving home and a great school in a safe neighborhood When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denvers most soughtafter developments Alyson works hard to fit in and impress the other mothersBonnie Sloan is the neighborhood matriarch With her oldest son headed to Yale and her youngest starting kindergarten Bonnie is now pursuing her own longheld political aspirations But its her middle child Elijah and their private family struggles that cast a shadow over her plansWhen the open space behind some of the most expensive homes gets slated for development into an amusement facility the neighborhood becomes deeply divided The personal pressures and community conflicts ratchet with every passing day but its when a thirteenyearold boy is found dead beside the lake that simmering tensions boil over into panicGossip flows lies are exposed and accusations are made as cracks run through the communitys once solid foundations The neighborhoods faith in exterior appearances is eclipsed by the secrets every house keepsRebecca Taylor author of Her Perfect Life returns with this fastpaced engrossing novel that reminds us that nothing is ever as perfect as it seems
