From acclaimed novelist Sarah Jio (The Bungalow, The Violets of March) a new βmystery-slash-love story [that] will have you racing to the endβ
Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the nightshift, but itβs the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morningβeven though itβs the second of Mayβa heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow.
Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Times reporter, Claire Hanson, awakens to another late-season snowstorm. Assigned to cover this βblackberry winterβ and its predecessor decades earlier, Claire learns of Danielβs unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truthβonly to discover that she and Vera are linked in unexpected ways.
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