Envy

June 1, 2018
Gabrielle Wilson Flores has been hit with a bombshell; she has a little sister, the result of an affair her father had more than 20 years ago. Not seeming to care about the potential for scandal, Gabrielle anxiously anticipates meeting her new sibling, but little does she know that her sister has just hit rock bottom. After her mother's death, Keisha Jones is facing eviction from their two-room shack. But when a family she doesn't know offers a lifeline, Keisha's instinct isn't to be grateful; instead, she feels that she deserves everything she's always wished she had and more. In an act of love, Gabrielle naively brings Keisha into her posh Los Angeles home, never suspecting that her seemingly shy and innocent half sister is secretly planning to destroy her life of luxury and take whatever remains. Envy, following Lust (2017), is the second novel in award-winning author Murray's suspenseful Seven Deadly Sins series, which captures the drama of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills while also bringing this well-developed work of urban fiction to a satisfyingly redemptive conclusion.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)