Lian Dolan Knihy

"Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport, Connecticut. But their mother's death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics, publishers, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one June night, his daughters return to their childhood home. They aren't sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature. But as guests pay their respects and reminisce, one stranger, emboldened by whiskey, has crashed the party. It turns out that she too is a Sweeney sister. What does this mean for William's literary legacy? Where is the unfinished memoir he's stashed away? And how will a fourth Sweeney sister, a blond among redheads, fit into their story?"--Provided by publisher

Joan Blakely's artist father died on 9/11, and Joan has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. After impulsively deciding to get out of town, Joan is on a plane to Paris. After a romantic night fling, Joan wakes up next to her new lover to discover a sketch from her father's journals, which she thought had been lost when he died on 9/11, and a poem that reads like a treasure hunt. Joan will follow the clues all over Paris hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. What she finds is even better than she'd expected. Author of "The Sweeney Sisters." Print run 50,000.