Surviving Valencia

If you had everything you'd ever wanted, would it matter whether or not it was real?From the author of Sweet Hollow Women, a novel for fans of Donna Tartt and Patricia Highsmith about family secrets and obsession. Twins Van and Valencia Loden are the perfect, popular stars of their high school. They hold their family together and elevate the otherwise ordinary Lodens to greatness. When they die in an automobile crash, they leave behind their parents and a younger sister. Those who remain are too devastated to take care of themselves, much less each other. As an adult, their younger sister finally begins to come into her own, and to create a life that's free of the ties associated with being Van and Valencia's little sister. Her life turns from mediocre to amazing when she meets cool, artistic Adrian. The kind of happiness once reserved only for others is finally hers, until mysteries from the past begin resurfacing, threatening to destroy her perfect new life.