Seven women were involved, all good friends. But in a few anxious days, their friendships, as well as their own values and loyalties, were to be challlenged as they had never been before. For when the walls of their old sorority house came tumbling down, a frightful secret was exposed. There among the rubble, lay the skeleton of a baby. And there, too, among a different kind of rubble , the lives of these seven threatened to come tumbling down. Speculation soared as the inevitable inquiry gathered momentum. Mounting evidence indicated that such a thing could have happened only during a hot summer twenty- four years ago, when these seven women were attending summer school and living in the house. A decision had to be made. Should they ride out the tide of waggingtongues and accusing glances as a group? Or destroy one family forever by forcing a public admission? Either way, with so many of the barriers of everday relationships momentairly destroyed, these women were bound to make some remarkable discoveriesabout themselves and about each other.