My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya.Never believe me. I lie all the time.

Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hailsfrom a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, andwho have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappear-ance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death ofher twin sister to light.