Seventeen-year-old Nore Robbins is staying with her father Chuck , stepmother Lisette Bergé , stepbrother Gabe , and stepsister Josie at their Louisiana plantation during the summer . Nore 's father recently remarried after her mother died less than a year ago , and this was her first time meeting her stepmother , stepbrother , and stepsister . During her time there , she notices unusual behavior from her new family . During dinner her first evening , Josie mentions she was in Hartford when the Ringling Circus tent caught fire . Nore finds this odd considering Josie is a teenager and the event occurred in the 1940s . A woman at the supermarket , Elaine Shannon , thought she recognized Lisette from twenty years ago , but Lisette says that she must be thinking of her mother , who Lisette stated had the same name . Nore is puzzled by this statement because Bergé is not her maiden name , but a name she obtained from a previous marriage
Hartford when the Ringling Circus tent caught fire
Hartford circus fire
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