No one paid much attention to Jude, the girl who lived in an abandoned building in the heart of Harmony, Nebraska. No one knew of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father or how she made her escape. No one, that is, but her best friend Alison. And when Jude suddenly disappeared, Alison thought she had run away to pursue her musical dreams in New Orleans. Twenty years later, as Alison's life in Minneapolis begins to crumble and the tension in her longtime relationship begins to rise, Alison is faced with the news that Jude's skeletal remains have been found. But Jude's secrets didn't die on the day of her suicide. When Alison returns to Harmony for the burial, she steps into the memories of the long-ago past and begins to fear that she may have caused Jude's death. Betrayal, lust, and guilt weave through this novel that transcends time, as Alison Bouchard struggles to find freedom from the life she has built and the lies she lives. "Patti Frazee's great wisdom is in knowing that coming of age doesn't stop with adolescence. In "Out of Harmony," secrets from the past and present collide to force Frazee's mid-life protagonist, Alison Bouchard, to take stock of her life. With humanizing detail, a judicious sprinkling of wit, and a sweeping sense of place from Minneapolis to a small Nebraska town to New Orleans, Frazee's probing work is an ode to the power of the imagination and the ongoing quest for identity. Anyone who has struggled to rethink who you are and what you know will resonate. And cheer." --Pamela Carter Joern, author of "The Floor of the Sky" and "The Plain Sense of Things"