Kensington
December 2015
On Sale: November 24, 2015
Featuring: Shanley Keagan; Tommy Capello
ISBN: 0758281188 EAN: 9780758281180 Kindle: B00U7LG76I Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
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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