Contrast Mallory Eton's fairytale existence, envied by many, with Jane Somersby's life, pathetic and to be avoided: Mallory, a teen-aged movie star born into a wealthy family and Jane, a plain drugstore clerk born into a single-parent impoverished home. After seeing a movie in the local movie theater, Jane became fascinated by the similarity in looks of she and Mallory. Determined to meet her doppelganger, Jane's clandestine investigation exposed secrets harbored by both families and unlocked a chasm of secrets thought hidden forever. Horrifying details sent two families plunging into an abyss of murder, deception and wickedness. Life became an explosion sliced deeply by the shrapnel of truth.