The Fat Twin

Nowhere Girl - Susan Strecker

Do identical twins have a supernatural bond, the ability to communicate across time and space in a way no one else can penetrate? Cady Bernard certainly believes they do – and she should know, since she’s an identical twin. That is, she was: once. Sixteen years ago; half her life; Cady’s twin sister Savannah died…. a homicide… her body found in an abandoned house on the hill behind their high school. Cady knew without being told that her sister was gone.

Time files. After battling self-abuse (cutting, attempted suicide) in the aftermath of her sister’s death, Cady grew up and became a best-selling author… an author who writes what she knows: murder. She’s (unhappily) married to a bassoon-tooting psychiatrist she suspects is 1) ashamed that she makes more money than he does and 2) probably playing hide-the-salami with his waiflike receptionist. Because, although Savannah Martino was gorgeous, luminous, slim and lovely; twin sis Cadence was and remains the “chubby” one. Apparently epigenesis rules…