When we were bright and beautiful : a novel
(Spoken CD)

Compact disc.

Title from container.

Read by Marin Ireland.

Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can₂t buy happiness, but it₂s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist. When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy, but Billy fits the all-too-familiar sex-offender profile, white, athletic, and privileged, that makes headlines and sways juries. Meanwhile, Cassie struggles to understand why Billy₂s ex Diana would go this far, even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone: Her own years-long affair with a powerful, charismatic man left her shattered, and she₂s only recently regained her footing. As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark building, the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial, and Cassie vows she₂ll do whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world?