The Sisters Chase

<p><b>A mysterious and thoroughly surprising family drama about two sisters left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her young charge (<i>The New York Times</i>).</b><br/><br/>The hardscrabble Chase women--Mary Hannah and their mother Diane--have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate beautiful and free-spirited. Her much younger sister Hannah whom Mary affectionately calls Bunny is imaginative her head full of the stories Mary tells to give her a safe emotional place in the middle of their troubled world. <br/><br/>When Diane dies in a car accident Mary discovers that the motel is worth less than the back taxes they owe and her finely tuned instincts for survival kick in. As the sisters begin a cross-country journey in search of a better life she will stop at nothing to protect Hannah. But Mary wants to protect herself too for the secrets she promised she would never tell--but now may be forced to reveal--hold the weight of unbearable loss. <br/><br/>&#8220Captivating” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) and suspenseful <i>The Sisters Chase</i> is a “striking heartbreaking story about love motherhood and family with a powerful and elusive protagonist at its heart” (<i>Library Journal</i>).</p>