<p> Every gift has a price . . . Every piece of lace has a secret . . . </p> <p> My name is Towner Whitney. No, That's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time . . . </p> <p> Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of <i>The Lace Reader</i>, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light. <i>The Lace Reader</i> is a mesmerizing tale that spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths in which the reader quickly finds it's nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents." </p>