The Good Children
Endeavour Award nominee 1999.
It started with a promise. A pact. It became a secret that no one must tell – that their parents were dead and gone. Including the one they'd buried in the backyard.
Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, careers. But their lie haunts them. Their home holds them captive. Only the horrifying truth of their mother's death can set the children free. And only the truth can destroy them all...
Kate Wilhelm
Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018) was an American author. She wrote novels and stories in the science fiction, mystery, and suspense genres, including the Hugo Award-winning Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and she established the Clarion Workshop with her husband Damon Knight and writer Robin Scott Wilson.