Widowed, with her twin daughters leaving for college, Nessa James is alone in her house by the ocean. When the former nurse begins to hear voices, she realizes they belong to the dead--a gift she inherited from her grandmother. After her career and marriage implode, Harriet Osborne doesn't leave her house--but undergoes a stunning metamorphosis. Jo Levison has spent thirty years at war with her body--until she learns she can channel the rage and hot flashes. When the three women discover the body of a teenage girl beside a remote beach, their investigation leads to more bodies--and to the town's most exclusive and isolated enclave. And their newfound powers allow them to take matters into their own hands--Adapted from book jacket