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  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780553447705
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $44.99

June

A Novel



Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking secrets could June's once-stately mansion hold?
     Soon Jack's famous daughters come knocking, determined to wrestle Cassie away from the inheritance they feel is their due. Together they all come to discover the true reasons for June's silence about that long-ago summer, when Hollywood came to town, and June and Jack's lives were forever altered by murder, blackmail, and betrayal. As this page-turner shifts deftly between the past and present, Cassie and her guests will be forced to reexamine their legacies, their definition of family, and what it truly means to love someone, steadfastly, across the ages.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake that changed a family forever, now in paperback and featuring an all-new Reading Group Guide
 
Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family’s crumbling mansion in small-town Ohio, mourning the loss of her grandmother, June. But the noise of the rusted doorbell forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary movie star Jack Montgomery's fortune.

Soon Jack’s famous daughters arrive, entourage in tow, determined to wrestle Cassie away from an inheritance they feel is theirs. Together, they come to discover the true reason for June’s silence about the summer she was eighteen, when Hollywood came to town, and June and Jack’s lives were forever altered. Shifting deftly between the past and present, Cassie and her guests will be forced to reexamine their legacies, their definition of family, and what it truly means to love someone, steadfastly, across the ages.

  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780553447705
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $44.99

Praise for June

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NEW YORK POST "SUMMER'S HOTTEST FICTION" PICK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "BOOKS OF SUMMER" PICK

Praise for Bittersweet:

  • "Bittersweet takes swift, implausible plot turns, and its family secrets flow like a bottomless magnum of champagne, but Beverly-Whittemore succeeds in shining a light into the dark, brutal flaws of the human heart." --New York Times Book Review
  • "Mesmerizing Gothic thriller . . . Bittersweet is worth savoring--it unfolds like a long summer day, leisurely revealing the dark." --People
  • "For fans of Edward St. Aubyn . . . Miranda Beverly-Whittemore's Bittersweet spins a New England Gothic filled with blonde bluebloods and heavily bolted doors." --Vogue.com
  • "What begins a little like Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep quickly warps into a sickly addictive thriller. . . . Think ABC's Revenge when it was good, only more scandalous. . . . With books like Bittersweet to stuff in beach bags, it's beginning to feel a lot more like summer." --Entertainment Weekly
  • "Beverly-Whittemore has crafted a page-turner riddled with stubborn clues, a twisty plot, and beguiling characters." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)