Book 3, Part 1 Summary

Kenny makes his usual, semi-drunken way to school to ring the bell, and the gossipy old men (including Clayton Frazier) make their usual comments. At school, Miss Thornton reflects on what had happened to the Cross .family—after Lucas' disappearance and Nellie's suicide. Someone alerted social services and the kids hid at Constance's house. Their older brother, Paul and his wife, came and took over raising them and enlarged the house, cleaning it up.

Constance and Makris have been married for four years. Allison is a successful writer in New York and participated in a lawsuit by Kathy Ellsworth's family against Leslie Harrington after the accident at the carnival.

Constance recalls the evening in 1939 when she blurted out the truth about Allison father. After doing so, Constance no longer felt guilty when having sex and Allison decides to leave Peyton...