Isabelle Manning is her father's daughter: so devoted to capturing the fate she deserves as a writer, she'll sacrifice anything that threatens to tear it away. But she has yet to publish a novel, and her award-winning father casts a shadow almost as daunting as the youth slipping through Isabelle's fingers. The recent loss of her mother, the family's infallible matriarch, yields a stifling writer's block in father and daughter alike. Interspered with snippets of a mysterious book of unknown origin, this clever novel is full of delicious intrigue and family drama. (RR)