Shadow Dance

Melisande is only 11 years old when she finds her mother, a ballroom dancer, dead at the foot of the stairs in their North Carolina home. Melisande's memory of what happened that December night is foggy. As time goes by, the gap in her knowledge and the half-remembered images from childhood continue to haunt her. Finally, driven, she returns, years later, to the scene to discover more about who her mother was and to search for new clues to the mystery. What she finds out shocks her and leads to an agonizing, life-altering decision. Also by Sandy Hill: the Erin Markham murder mysteries series; historical novels "Tangled Threads," "Bonds of Courage," "Delia and Kate," and "The Blue Car" and "The Friends of Flat Flora," a story of women's friendship.