“Elise Delcroix was coming home after eleven years for the recognition and retribution she knew she deserved.” When family suspicions turned toward her, rather than her brother, after he denied embezzling money from the bank where their father, Emil, is a vice president, Elise left her small hometown in Western Pennsylvania for New York City, furious, unforgiving, and vowing never to return. Now, after the death of her father (and in hopes of sharing in his fortune), Elise has finally returned home to her estranged family. As a child she’d felt entitled to the best of her father, Emil’s, love and attention, resenting his favoritism toward her half-sister and half-brother. Only her Belgian immigrant grandfather, Jules, showered her with the devotion she needed. After her parents divorce, Elise shuttled between her alcoholic mother and her successful, but judgmental father. She rebelled against Emil in every way, shunning his increasingly religious ways, acting out against her half-brother and step-mother. Only her grandfather and half-sister, Nova, were spared Elise’s wrath and offered her love. When her family asks her to return for her father’s funeral and the reading of his will, she believes they are now ready to embrace her and recognize the success she has become. But she is not home long before she notices everyone, including Nova, seem uncomfortable rather than welcoming around her. Memories come flooding back and Elise wonders if she should have returned. Everything culminates during the reading of the Emil’s will and Elise realizes that, even in death, he will never be the father she longed for so desperately.