Summary

Chapter 7 opens with a New Year’s Day email from Lorelei to Jim. She tells him that she hasn’t seen her three children since Vicky’s funeral. The story shifts to April, 2011. Meg gets a call from the coroner’s office asking her to come in to discuss the findings about her mother’s death.

The chapter then shifts to April, 2003, when Lorelei exclaims to Vicky that someone has been moving things in Meg’s old room; specifically, a book is missing. She blames Vicky’s girls for moving stuff around in the room. Vicky admits that there was second-hand book sale at Sophie’s school and she took some books to it. Maddy later asks Vicky to move out of Lorelei’s house and in with her father because she hates Lorelei. Vicky doesn’t want her daughter to live with...