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Broken Homes, Unkept Garden M a de Neve

"Broken Homes, Unkept Gardens" follows the lives of three siblings after their dad is lynched by drunken Klansmen. The three orphaned Jewish children, Jack, Vonnie and Lisa, return to Mountain Ridge as adults. Jack becomes a suspect in a series of murders and is framed for an armed robbery. Yvonne is raped and soon finds herself pregnant. She then won't be able to keep her job as a maid in the Rinaldi household. Lisa, the only one of the siblings who saw the lynching, is plagued by nightmares. Then Penny Peyton comes to town. She has a thirst for secrets and finds plenty of them in Mountain Ridge. The wealthy Rinaldis are blacks passing as whites. The Mynters have a mysterious fortune, and they don't want anyone to know where they got it. Jack Brianka might be mobbed up. Penny befriends these families, discovers the town's truths, but she is soon targeted by a pair of desperate serial killers. Some secrets are best left alone.