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Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can’t bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted mother, is in love with a woman. Isla’s pregnant too—and in love with her sister’s husband. Only one soul knows about Isla’s pregnancy, and it isn’t the father. When Isla resorts to a back-street abortion and nearly dies, Llewellyn becomes hellbent on revenge. But can revenge lead to anything but disaster for a man like Llew—a policeman tangled up in running rum to Prohibition America?

When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband, Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter, too. Charlotte Dacher is 11 when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte can't imagine things getting much worse.

For 15 years, Jeselle has waited for revenge. After moving to a new city with her parents as a teen, Jeselle Parsons quickly found friends and a life full of money, power, and privilege. Even though her parents weren’t wealthy like the other kids' parents, Jeselle felt lucky to be welcomed into the circle of friends, until she learned how costly that type of life could be. A life that would cost her everything.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you.... The story of the Hutchinson sisters does not begin in book one, It's Not My Favorite. It begins like a cancer - small subtle signs slowly surface in this achingly real prequel. If you want to know more about Gwenn and Rachel or if you only want a taste of their world, this novella will give you a chilling peek behind the holy curtain that cloaks their painfully sheltered lives.