Quiet Mother

Corliss Vandenhoek-Bree has built a quiet life in Ashcroft, Oregon: a rented house on Cyprus Street, bookkeeping work, substitute teaching, an aging dog, and an eighteen-year-old daughter preparing to leave home.Then a woman moves into the rental across the street.Wendy Thorne-Oster arrives alone, carrying her own boxes from a yellow rental truck into a small house that has stood empty for months....