About the book: year / Forty-five-year-old Hannah Smith found herself at a crossroads. And he can’t get out of it. Divorced and unemployed, she must return to her family home in Iowa to care for her mother, who has fallen into senile dementia. Her forced return evokes the same frustrating feeling of loneliness that Hannah has experienced since childhood - she has always been the shadow of her two older sisters. Hannah knew the resentment would return. But she did not imagine that along with fear. Because when her mother looks into her eyes and whispers, "You're not my daughter," Hannah begins to believe that this isn't all just the mindless confusion of a weak-minded woman. It's true. Now Hannah follows the trail of the family secret to the dark coast of Big Sur. where the big lie was born and died many years ago. No matter how afraid she is to get to the bottom of the truth, Hannah knows that this is her last chance to find out her true past, with all the terrible secrets, which is lost forever..