When Cassie Danvers gets a visit explaining that she's the sole heir to legendary Hollywood movie star Jack Montgomery's fortune, she is stunned. He's named her as his granddaughter and cut his two famous daughters out of the will. Cassie doubts she is Montgomery's descendant; her prim and proper grandmother, June, dead half a year, certainly never mentioned him. But Cassie finds out that Jack Montgomery filmed a movie in June's hometown of St. Jude, Ohio, in the summer of 1955, which means Jack could have fathered Cassie's dad, even though June was engaged at the time. Meanwhile, the family home in St. Jude where Cassie now lives (and where June lived all those years ago) seems to come alive every time Jack and June's names are mentioned in the same breath--is it just Cassie's imagination? As Cassie comes to discover, June had good reasons to keep her secrets about Jack and all that happened the summer he came to film in St. Jude, secrets involving blackmail, murder, betrayal, and broken hearts. A suspenseful and atmospheric summer novel, drawing on Bittersweet's theme of an outsider who must come to grips with the secrets and lies of a prestigious family's legacy, June tells the story of two young women, united across sixty years, confronting similar, but extraordinary, circumstances.

Author Biography

MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE is the author of three other novels: New York Times bestseller Bittersweet; Set Me Free, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, given annually for the best book of fiction by an American woman; and The Effects of Light. A recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn.