num_pages: 329
description: Starting over means looking back for a mother and daughter on the road to reinventing themselves in a moving novel about family secrets and second chances by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jamie Beck. Seventeen years ago two pink stripes on a pregnancy test changed Anne Sullivans life. She abandoned her artistic ambitions married her college sweetheart before graduation andlike the mother she lost in childhooddevoted herself to her family. To say she didnt see the divorce coming is an understatement. Now eager to distance herself from her ex and his lover she moves with her troubled daughter Katy to the quaint bayside town of Potomac Point where she spent her childhood summers. But her fresh start stalls when the contractor and onetime love interest renovating her grandparents old house discovers a vintage recipe box containing hints about her beloved grandmothers hidden past. Anne is drawn into exploring the mysterious clues about the woman whose memory is fading while also helping her daughter manage a rocky adjustment to a new school. When uncovered secrets shatter past beliefs each woman must confront her deepest fears in order to learn its never too late to live her best life.
language: English
title: Truth of the Matter
publisher: Montlake