Janie makes her way to an isolated South Dakota town whose mysteries rival her own. Enlisting the help of some new friends (and the towns wary police chief), Janie follows a series of cluesan old photograph, an abandoned house, a forgotten diaryand begins to piece together her mothers seemingly improbable connection to the town. When new evidence from Janies own past surfaces, shes forced to consider the possibility that she and her mother were more alike than either of them would ever have imagined. As she digs tantalizingly deeper, and as suspicious locals begin to see through her increasingly fragile facade, Janie discovers that even the sleepiest towns hide sinister secretsand will stop at nothing to guard them. On the run from the press, the police, and maybe even a murderer, Janie must choose between the anonymity she craves and the truth she so desperately needs. A gripping, electrifying debut novel with an ingenious and like-it-or-not sexy protagonist, Dear Daughter follows every twist and turn as Janie unravels the mystery of what happened the night her mother diedwhatever the cost.