From bestselling author Kristina McMorris comes an ambitious and heartrending story of immigrants, deception, and second chances.
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On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guardβs only daughterβone of the youngest civilians who lives on the islandβhas gone missing. Tending the wardenβs greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girlβs whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the searchβs outcome.
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Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in aΒ volatileΒ and foreign world.
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Skillfully weaving these two stories,Β Kristina McMorrisΒ delivers a compelling novelΒ that moves fromΒ Ireland to New York to San FranciscoΒ Bay. AsΒ her finelyΒ crafted charactersΒ discover the trueΒ nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced toΒ confrontΒ the lies we tellβand believeβin order to survive.
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βWill grab your heart on page one and wonβt let go until the end.Β
I absolutely love this book, and so will you.β
βSara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
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βAn absorbing, addictive read.β
βBeatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author
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