PRETENDING TO DANCE PB B – DIANE CHAMBERLAIN

When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . It s the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly s playground and she s well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he s written about a method called Pretend Therapy ; her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own; and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land. The adults in Molly s life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly s security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family – a plan she can t stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, is a fascinating and deftly-woven novel, that reveals the devastating power of secrets.