The Black Box - Marjorie DeRubeis Walme

Be careful what you wish for. 

Perfect community, perfect school, perfect families. Olivia, Sarah, and Norah find their road to perfection paved with betrayal, lies, rivalries, and troubled relationships.

Olivia, a once-struggling model, answers a knock on the door that will redefine her life.  Her road to self-discovery leads to one bad decision after another and ultimately has her teetering on the edge of losing it all.

Sarah is trying to get her life back on track after a nasty divorce, but when past mistakes crash into the present, Sarah turns to her friend Olivia for support. Olivia, however, may have a secret or two of her own that might destroy Sarah’s attempts to reclaim her life and that of her boys.

Norah fancies herself the Queen Bee at the prestigious St. Joseph’s School. Always striving to be better than everyone else is exhausting, especially when it’s all an attempt to make up for the areas in her life she can no longer control.

The women shock themselves as they each cross lines and betray those closest to them all for the sake of appearances.