Lani: Living with her large family in a squishy, stuffy basement for so many months, waiting for their new house to be completed, she is dismayed when construction grinds to a halt…on account of her very own sister.

Riva: Victim of her boss’s intimidation and intolerable behavior, she is hurt to no end at the bullying her young daughter is experiencing…at the hands of her niece.

Join the sisters as they tiptoe over the construction debris. Between funds that run dry, anniversary plans that turn cagey, breakfast packages that run late, and neighbors who scandalously overstep their boundaries, there’s a lot of tricky navigating to do.

In Power Tools, popular novelist Esty Heller weaves an intricate, suspenseful story about construction—of houses and homes; about bullying—of children and adults; and about relationships—in fiction and in real life.