Mason (That Devil’s No Friend of Mine
) sets three former best friends on a collision course with the secret that shattered their friendship in her commendable latest. When the former “Tres Amigas” reunite at their 30-year high school reunion, they’re unaware that the baby girl they abandoned at an emergency room in 1979 is now grown and eager to confront them. Although Tasha Darden, the abandoned baby, loved Miss Lucy, her recently deceased foster mother, she wonders about her birth mother, and a private detective has winnowed the suspects down to three potential women. Was it Renetta Smith, now married to an abusive husband? Or Phyllis Neville, a driven career woman whose first marriage gave her a lovely daughter before it ended in divorce? Or Freddie Palmer, who has a fulfilling if boring marriage and three grown children? The day of reckoning is unavoidable for all four women in this fast-moving and fascinating look at friendship, the repercussions of keeping secrets, and the power of forgiveness (Mar.)
