The Embers

A People Magazine Get Set for Summer PickOne of InStyle Magazine''s Top 5 Beach ReadsBlessed with beauty talent and a loving family the Aschers seem to have it all. Joe and Laura are the toast of New York--a wildly successful playwright and a wealthy well-educated actress. Then one winter night seventeen-year-old Thomas dies and the Aschers lose everything. More than a decade later as their daughter Emily''s wedding approaches the family yearns to reconnect. But in order to do so Joe Laura and Emily will first have to confront the tangle of blame guilt and long-held secrets that tore them apart. Shifting between past and present over the course of sixteen years The Embers is an utterly gripping and exquisitely tender story of a family struggling to reconcile the past and embrace the future.