In many ways, Vangie and Angie Cooper are one person, with many unspoken secrets. In more ways, Vangie is everything Angie wishes to be. While Vangie is provocative, ambitious, and will to stop at nothing to escape poverty, Angie is clumsy, awkward, and quiet. Inseparable, the twins vow no stretch of the sea or the circumference of the earth will ever come between them. But fate deals them both wild cards, and they find themselves worlds apart, living on opposite sides of the tracks. Years later, when a dark family secret unearths, Vangie and Angie's paths cross again, under fatal circumstances. Narrated in the starkly contrasting voices of two very different heroines, "The Hand She Played" chronicles the unbreakable bond between identical twins and redefines the meaning of undying love.