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by Sarah Healy
A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge.
The hardscrabble Chase women - Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane - have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations, inviting trouble into their lives for just as long. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate, beautiful, and free-spirited. Her much younger sister, Hannah, whom Mary affectionately calls "Bunny," is imaginative, her head full of the stories of princesses and adventures that Mary tells to give her a safe emotional place in the middle of their troubled world.
But when Diane dies in a car accident, Mary discovers the motel is worth less than the back taxes they owe. With few options, Mary's finely tuned instincts for survival kick in. As the sisters begin a cross-country journey in search of a better life, she will stop at nothing to protect Hannah. But Mary wants to protect herself, too, for the secrets she promised she would never tell - but now may be forced to reveal - hold the weight of unbearable loss. Vivid and suspenseful, The Sisters Chase is a whirlwind page-turner about the extreme lengths one family will go to find - and hold onto - love.
"Starred Review. A truly entrancing and relentless tale of love, betrayal, and sisterhood." - Booklist
"Captivating...Mary is an unforgettable protagonist - a fierce and unstoppable force of nature caught in a storm of her own making. Healy delivers a heartbreaking story of love, loyalty, and secrets that can never truly be outrun." - Publishers Weekly
"Absorbing… Healy takes every opportunity to surprise her reader as Mary and Hannah grow up and into themselves. The sisters' relationship - and their resilience - makes this novel powerful when it might otherwise have been prosaic." - Kirkus
"The Sisters Chase hits all the right marks. Wonderful characters, so believable that it still surprises me they aren't real people, a heart-wrenching story about love, loyalty, and bonds that can't be broken, and the true nature of survival." - Chevy Stevens, author of Those Girls and Still Missing
"Sarah Healy's The Sisters Chase will stay with me for a long time. It's a heart-rending tale of survival filled with deftly revealed surprises and twists." - Diane Chamberlain, author of Pretending to Dance and The Silent Sister
"Part mystery, part road novel, part family saga, The Sisters Chase had me riveted from the first secret to the last revelation. Mary Chase is a force of nature and a truly unforgettable heroine." - Lisa Lutz, author of The Passenger and How to Start a Fire
"Sarah Healy's novel, wise and fierce and bittersweet, broke my heart in all the best ways. This is one you'll want to pass along." - Joshilyn Jackson, author of The Opposite of Everyone and gods in Alabama
"Sarah Healy's The Sisters Chase is the deeply moving and thrilling portrayal of three women driven by love, loss, and the deep desire to make things right. This is a story that stayed with me long after I turned the last page." - Carla Buckley, author of The Things That Keep Us Here and The Deepest Secret
"The Sisters Chase is a deliciously compulsive read, a miniature mystery of love, survival, and sisterhood written on the scale of the human heart. Deceptively simple, gracefully realized, and occasionally wicked, it lingers like a summer dream after the last page is turned." - Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone
"Sarah Healy has created, in Mare and Bunny, characters so real and flawed my heart ached for them, and I so, so wanted them to find that safe place called home. The Sisters Chase is exquisitely written and full of surprises, love and loss; it is clearly the work of a writer at the top of her game." - Jennifer McMahon, author of The Night Sister
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Sarah Healy is the author of Can I Get an Amen?and House of Wonder. She lives in Vermont with her husband and three sons.
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