Then her life goes from bad to worse when her older brother disappears. Not only is the entire extended family thrown into a crisis, but the closer they become during the ordeal, the more they learn things about each other that they never knew--for instance, a startling revelation about an earlier, hushed-up family suicide.

All-in-all this is a typical Salt Lake City family. As Linda Sillitoe peels back the layers of pretense, the story begins to seem like a dream--a nightmare--that one can remember well enough to be unnerved by, since it seems so much like real life. For Caitlin, the nightmare has become real.

Linda Sillitoe is a graduate of the University of Utah. As a Deseret News staff reporter, news features editor for Utah Holiday magazine, and a New York Times correspondent, she garnered several awards from the Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, and other news and community organizations. Her non-fiction includes Banking on the Hemingways: Three Generations of Banking in Utah and Idaho, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah, and Welcoming the World: A History of Salt Lake County. Her fiction includes Crazy for Living: Poems, Secrets Keep: A Novel, Sideways to the Sun: A Novel, and Windows on the Sea and Other Stories. She is a contributor to Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories, The Evening and the Morning, Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories, Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems, and The Wilderness of Faith: Essays on Contemporary Mormon Thought. She has taught classes in journalism and writing on several college campuses; co-produced a PBS-affiliated documentary, "Navajo and American"; and has been published in Exponent II, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunstone magazine, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Mesa, Arizona.