General FictionLarge Print Edition* A New York Times BestsellerThey were the pillars of their community until a brutal crime ripped the Dawes family apart. For the Dawes family， once factory owners and prime employers in a New England mill town， what happened to Charlotte Dawes at the tender age of fourteen was the beginning of a cover-up the beginning of the end. Unable to cope， the family is plunged into debt and disgraced trying to bury secrets that refuse to die in a searing novel of a family on the edge of destruction.