Daphne was a wonder, and there was nothing she wouldn’t do for her family. Wren included. Emma knew that.
She knew other things, too.
She knew that her mother was entirely capable of murder.
She also knew that her mother was the kind of woman with an exit plan. She wasn’t like Emma. If she had decided to kill her husband, she would have had a way out afterward.
She knew that Daphne was still keeping secrets.
But no one could ever really know another person, could they? Everyone had secrets.
JJ was in the sunroom now, pulling faces at Wren. Emma looked around the house. She’d tried to run from this place, but it had always been her home. Their home. It belonged to them, and they belonged to one another.
And that was all she needed to know.
Emma smiled, and went to join her sisters.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
No One Can Know is my thirteenth published book, and I think I may be running out of ways to say thank you—which is quite inconvenient when the list of people I am grateful to only keeps growing. This book was a particular challenge to write; untangling the three sisters’ pasts and presents was a difficult and sometimes maddening task, which I absolutely could not have achieved without the help of the No Name Writing Group—Rhiannon Held, Corry L. Lee, Shanna Germain, Rashida Smith, Erin M. Evans, and Susan Morris. Special thanks to Erin and Susan, who are absolutely brilliant and went above and beyond the call of duty to answer my plaintive cries for help.
This book is dedicated to my parents, and I feel like as well as a thank-you I owe them an apology for the sheer number of terrible parents in my books. In my defense, if I just wrote about kind, supportive, loving parents like you, it would get pretty boring.
Thank you also to my wonderful spouse, Mike, who knew what he was getting into when he married me, and to my kids, who remain frustrated that I don’t write proper books with pictures in them.
I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my agent, Lauren Spieller, and my editor, Christine Kopprasch, for being this book’s earliest and most dedicated advocates. And thank you to everyone at Flatiron who helped bring it to life—the Flatiron team has been an absolute dream to work with from the start, and I couldn’t be happier.