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 guardâs only daughterâone of the youngest civilians who lives on the islandâhas gone missing. Tending the wardenâs greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girlâs whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the searchâs 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 a volatile and foreign world.
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Skillfully weaving these two stories, Kristina McMorris delivers a compelling novel that moves from Ireland to New York to San Francisco Bay. As her finely crafted characters discover the true nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced to confront the lies we tellâand believeâin order to survive.
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âWill grab your heart on page one and wonât let go until the end.Â
I absolutely love this book, and so will you.â
âSara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
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âAn absorbing, addictive read.â
âBeatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author
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