From Alafair Burke ' New York TimesThe WifeThough Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor-roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless...and more than a little reckless ' the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man and stayed close to home in Cleveland.For a while, it seemed like both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.Now, more than 15 years later, their lives are drastically different ' and Chloe is married to Adam. When he's murdered by an intruder at the couple's East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson's biological mother ' her estranged sister, Nicky ' back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father's death, the two sisters are forced to unite...and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.