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The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtimeand nestled inside is the sad story of her mothers death. . .  More than fifty years ago, Iriss mother, Katherine Morrissey, arrived at the Catskills grand Hotel Equinox penniless, with almost no belongings. Kay was hired as a maid but refused to speak of her past or her family. One year later, she married Ben Greenfeder, the hotels manager. During the hotels off-season, Kay wrote the first two fantasy novels of a planned trilogy. There never was a third book. When Iris was nine, her mother left one day for a writers conferenceand never came back. Kay died that very night in a hotel fire on Coney Island, registered as another mans wife.  Now Hedda Wolfe, Kays former literary agent, has a proposal: If Iris will return to the Hotel Equinox where she grew up, research her mothers life, and find the third and final manuscript that Hedda is convinced exists, then she can guarantee Iris a huge advance to write her mothers biography.  Transfixed by the notion of a third book, Iris believes that it will hold clues to the mysteries of Kays lifeand death. But as she begins to peer into the thicket of her mothers hidden world, stinging revelations leave Iris with new questions. When a deadly accident befalls the one man who could shed some light on Kay, it becomes clear that Iris is not alone in her deep interest in her mothers pastor in her search for a lost manuscript that might hold more secrets than she ever expected.  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