"A consuming novel, full of wisdom about female

relationships and chilling plot twists worthy

of Stephen King."

--Book-of-the-Month Club News

They were the golden girls

In college the) were popular and privileged, a~

inseparable group of friends so golden that everyone

wanted in. The~ knew one another s deepest

secrets, sharing everything--including the vow of

silence made when the) found classmate Lily

Vaughan murdered, her blood a scarlet stain against

the snow on which she ray.

Now. two decades later, the dark truth so long buried

seems to be coming back to haunt them. How

else to account for the escalating violence that

attacks each in her most hidden place? None

is safe: not Quinn in her cloistered laboratory; Susie

in her elegant New York apartment; Lis, wrestling

with the production of her first play; Dinah.

brutally stripped of the illusion of her

secure suburban marriage. Their friendsl~ ip lets

them discover how each has been assaulted.

but friendship can do nothing to stem

the mounli~lg nightmare.

For Lil) won t rest until the murderer Days