If his mama’s own sister, who she’d always spoken of fondly, can somehow turn into Aunt Mary, what’s going to happen to him and Annie? Is one of them going to get spoiled and twisted, worn into something so petty it can’t even find kindness for kin? And if that has to be—if that somehow can’t be helped—is there any way to make sure he’s the one who suffers?Annie is good. Annie is maybe the only good thing left in his life. If one of them should be spared, it’s her.