Joy found her sneaking into their house and also yelled at her. Logan had thrown his racket in anger at losing to Harry, and Savannah happened to be right there. Brooke yelled at her for stealing food from her backpack, Troy for going through their fridge, and Amy when Savannah asked her for a sandwich. When she confessed to the family, they realized that they had all met her just once and all snubbed her. She was the little sister of the tennis star Harry, and she had to live in poverty with their mom while Harry lived the good life with their dad. Savannah was scamming the whole family, but they weren’t picked randomly. Her mother had starved her as a child to make her into the perfect thin ballerina. Savannah was a pathological liar and would use pieces of TV shows as her own life. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure-but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.

The four Delaney children-Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.

If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?

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