What Matters Most: 8
by By Victor, Cynthia
Category: Fiction , General

They were childhood friends...so different...yet so alike.Lainey Wolfe is single and a successful commercial artist in New York City. Farrell Cole lives in an elegant home in Connecticut, surrounded by an attorney husband and two children who adore her. Lainey cannot deny the richness of her friend's life. And Farrell makes no secret of envying Lainey's freedom.Lainey's agreement to be named guardian of her best friend's children seemed no more than a natural promise between friends - but then the unthinkable happens: After a terrible accident that claims the lives of Farrell and her husband in one heartbreaking stroke, Lainey unexpectedly finds herself stepping into her best friend's shoes. In an instant Lainey becomes a single mom in suburbia, taking the two young Cole children under her wing, and not too willingly, she becomes entwined with Farrell's handsome, good-for-nothing brother, as seductive as he may be dangerous.To make matters worse, Lainey soon begins to harbor suspicions about her best friends' deaths, wondering if they were as accidental as everyone believes them to be. Most frightening of all, as she struggles to uncover the shocking truth, she realizes she has unwittingly set herself and the children up as targets for murder.