An icy mother. Two estranged sisters. And a haunting Russian fairy tale that holds the key to a family’s dark past.
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. Meredith stayed behind in Washington state, wrapping herself in duty to manage the family’s beloved apple orchard and raise her children. Nina followed a restless dream of escape, traveling to the world’s most dangerous conflict zones as a famous photojournalist. But despite their vastly different lives, both sisters share the exact same scar: the painful emotional distance of their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who has never offered either daughter a shred of comfort.
As children, the only fleeting connection they ever had to their mother was a dark Russian fairy tale Anya would occasionally tell them at night.
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