Told from multiple points of view and a dual timeline that flips from the past to present day, there is a lot to digest when it comes to the Delaney family, When the matriarch, Joy, disappears, the family drama heats up and a lot of old wounds are reopened. This is a book about a family who owned a tennis academy and their triumphs and struggles in the tennis world. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Because now Joy is missing, no one knows where Savannah is, and the Delaneys are reexamining their parents’ marriage and their shared family history with fresh, frightened eyes. Later, everyone will wonder what exactly went on in that household after Savannah entered their lives that night. And since Savannah is bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend, the Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door. Amy, the eldest, can’t seem to hold down a job or even a lease, but leave it to Brooke, the baby of the family, to be the rock-steady one who is married with a new solo physiotherapy practice. Logan is happy with his routine as a community college professor, but his family finds it easier to communicate with his lovely girlfriend than him. No one in the family can really tell you what Troy does, but based on his fancy car and expensive apartment, he seems to do it very well, even if he blew up his perfect marriage. Well, that depends on how you define success. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups. The four Delaney children―Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke―were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives.

They’re killer on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaney family is a communal foundation. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? The Delaney family love one another dearly―it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other.

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