The Worst Thing I've Done: A Novel

From the author of Stones from the River comes an intimate and dangerous story of three friends that goad one another into crossing a line that brings them shocking consequences. . Since early childhood Annie Jake and Mason have had a special bond. When Annies parents die on the same night that she and Mason are married the three friends decide to raise Annies newborn sister Opal together. Annie struggles to be both a sister and a mother to Opal a wife to Mason and a friend to Jake. Not surprisingly their relationships already entangled grow dangerous too close on the line. One fateful night the three friends miss the moment when they could still turn back provoking each other to step across a line that brings shocking unforeseen consequences. Once again Ursula Hegi writes along that border where bliss and sorrow meet. Sensuous funny and mysterious her new novel takes us into an exuberant and troubled friendship.