Fester: Lilies that fester stink worse than weeds

An affair built on an un-kept promise... A marriage that defines one sister, while diminishing the other... A remedy of inconvenient convenience...A sisterly loyalty that both festers and thrives in guilt.Sisters, Lillian and Lindersyl Gottlieb are fifty-something-year-old Black women with everything: Prestige, wealth, men and a family legacy held globally in high esteem. The "stuff" that makes for Essence and Time magazine articles about beautiful, powerful women, the "Gottlieb girls" are perfect - provided they are kept as far from one another as possible. But when an innocent business trip brings Lindersyl back to her family estate after a forced 17-year exodus, secrets, lies, and not so neatly packaged family ties begin to unravel.