It was fun playing on the sand dunes in the cool of the morning, but by noon when the sun was shining in all its fury, the sand scorched her feet. But Ilissa Ritchie couldn't go inside, for her mother forbade her and Ilissa's sister, Helen, from coming inside during the day. Ilissa grew up with an alcoholic mother and parents who yelled at each other and eventually got a divorce. Throw in a brother who tried to sexually abuse his sisters, and you...