From New York Times bestselling
author Kristina McMorris comes an ambitious and heartrending story of
immigrants, deception, and second chances.
On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter--one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island--has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome.
Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian 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.
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 tell--and believe--in order to survive.
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About the Author:
Kristina McMorris is a New York
Times and USA Today bestselling author published by Kensington
Books, Penguin Random House, and HarperCollins. Her novels have garnered more
than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nomination for the IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award, RWA's RITA® Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best
Historical Fiction.
A frequent guest speaker and workshop
presenter, McMorris holds a B.S. in International Marketing from Pepperdine
University. For her diverse achievements, she has been named one of Portland's
"Forty Under 40" by The Business Journal. She lives with her
husband and two sons in the Oregon, where she is still sleep deprived but
eagerly working on her next novel.
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