Sins of the Mother introduces Alison Young, a smart, savvy, self-made woman, the publisher of a popular national magazine based in San Francisco. Married to a loving man with whom she raised a talented and beautiful daughter, Alison's life is everything she's ever wanted it to be.When her daughter nears the volatile age of eighteen with dreams of a singing career, Alison's carefully organized existence begins to unravel at the seams. And only she knows why. Her life is built on a lie.Alison was the victim of a violent rape - and her daughter Destiny is the result of that attack. No one believed her side of the story when it happened. Not able to bring the man to trial or to obtain a legal abortion, Alison fled her hometown and reinvented her past. She recreated herself.Now, Country Davis - rapist, convicted felon, and career criminal - is being released from Folsom Prison. Unrepentant for the horror he inflicted years earlier on the young Alison, he heads for San Francisco to claim his rightful place beside the woman and child he calls family.The walls close in on Alison as she realizes she must risk abandonment by her husband and the bitter disappointment of her only child, for she must tell her family the truth before they find out from someone else. Read Less