Stan and Joy let her stay the night, and they eventually invite her to stay until she's sorted out. Amy got too "in her head" about it, Logan never "truly committed" to the sport, Troy was too show-off-y and not strategic enough, and Brooke got migraines that ended her career.Īs the book jumps back and forth in time, it's revealed that last September, a young woman named Savannah Pagonisshowed up at Stan and Joy's door, saying that she ended up here randomly since she didn't know where to go after getting into a fight with her boyfriend who hit her. All their kids also played and excelled at tennis, however, none of them made it to the top of the sport for various reasons. In their younger years, they played competitively until Stan was injured. Stan did the coaching while Joy ran the busines. Joy and Stan are retirees that used to run a tennis school. They're worried that if they go to the police, the main suspect will be their father, Stan, since Joy and Stan had a fight before the disappearance.
She sent them a text message full of gibberish and hasn't been reachable since. It then jumps to present day, the four Delaney siblings - Brooke (29), Troy (early 30s), Logan (37), Amy (39) - discussing the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney, who appears to have ridden off on her bike a week ago. The book opens with the discovery of a bike near the side of the road and four apples next to it.
The book ends with Savannah going home to confront her own mother. She needed some time apart before returning to work on their marriage. In the end, Stan is almost arrested, but then it turns out Joy is alive when she returns from a 3-week off-the-grid trip with Savannah. That revelation causes Joy and Stan to confront the issues in their marriage. She drops a bombshell that Joy is the reason that Harry left their tennis school. It turns out that Savannah is the sibling of Harry Haddad, a former star student who is now a famous tennis player.
Last September, a young woman named Savannah showed up asking for help stayed with Stan and Joy for a while. As her kids try to find out what happened, they end up confronting their own issues and in their relationships with each other. Joy and Stan used to run a tennis school but are now retired. The one-paragraph version: Joy Delany goes missing, and her husband Stan is the prime suspect.
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