The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. This will be really embarrassing, I kept saying to my family, when she shows up at the door in a week or two.When Deenas wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears - presumed dead - her family are heartbroken. But Mandy has always been troubled. Its just another bad thing to happen to Deenas family. Only Deena refuses to believe its true.And then the letters start arriving. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their familys blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions - but a curse, handed down through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curses roots, and now Deena must find her. What they find will heal their familys rotten past - or rip it apart forever.