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Paige Donahue feels trapped beneath her sister Camille’s towering presence and, fed by jealousy, she devises a plan to seduce Camille’s husband and destroy their marriage. The novel explores the lengths to which a woman will go to claim her own identity and revenge in a tightly woven family drama.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Kimberla Lawson Roby
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