"A Must Read … a story about generations, about relationships ... about a coming of age in middle age, and about facing the questions we all must eventually face. … The Four Ms. Bradwells is [a book] I will always remember … Share [it]with your Mom. And your best friend." — Bonnie Jean Adams, The Chicago Examiner

 Meg Waite Clayton’s national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters was a word-of-mouth sensation and book club favorite. Now the beloved author is back with a page-turning novel that explores the secrets we keep, even from those closest to us, and celebrates the enduring power of friendship.

A Ms. Magazine Great Read for Summer
A Literary Guild Book Club Fiction Pick
A Working Mother Magazine Summer Selection
A Mystery Guild Selection
A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Choice

Mia, Laney, Betts, and Ginger have reunited to celebrate Bett's pending appointment to the Supreme Court. But when the Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends' collective closet, they retreat to a summer house on the Chesapeake Bay, where they find themselves reliving a much darker period in their past—one that stirs up secrets they've kept for, and from, one another, and could change their lives forever.