Secrets: A Novel

At age twelve Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames a young man she met at one of her mothers business conferences. Over the years during periods of loneliness and struggle Cassie held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her isolated heart and the pain of a cold mother. Even when Cassie grew up went off to college and met a man she thought shed marry her heart yearned for Jeff. In a decisive moment she breaks off the pending engagement and travels to Williamsburg Virginia where the now-widowed Jeff lives with his young daughter. Cassie becomes the childs nanny but even though she sees the object of her desire every day Jeff has yet to even notice her. Then one day she hears shots coming from the mansion of Althea Fairmont an eccentric woman who is thought of as the worlds greatest living actress. Cassie runs to investigate and in an instant her safe little life is turned upside down. She begins to learn that all the people around her arent who they claim to be. Everyone has secrets -- and until Cassie unravels those secrets she and Jeff will never have a chance to be happy together.