In this follow-up to the riveting international bestseller No Child of Mine, author Susan Lewis delivers an emotionally complex novelβperfect for readers of Jodi Picoultβof reinvention, reconnection, and the deepest love that can bind two people together.
Charlotte Nicholls can hardly believe it, but it seems sheβs landed in paradise. Living in a cottage in a shady cove on the beautiful Bay of Islands, surrounded by the splendor of New Zealand, Charlotte revels in her new life. She and her nearly four-year-old daughter, Chloe, have started over, with the help of Charlotteβs birth mother, Anna, who has recently reentered Charlotteβs life after a twenty-six-year absence. Little Chloe is thriving in her new home, and despite lingering effects from a terrible trauma Chloe has suffered, Charlotte is hopeful that love will pull her through. And though their relationship is tentative, Charlotte and Anna are slowly rebuilding their trust after nearly a lifetime apart.
But the horrors of the pastβboth recent and long buriedβare never far from Charlotteβs mind. And then their idyll is suddenly shattered, as a series of events is set in motion that Charlotte can neither control nor comprehend. It will take all of Charlotteβs strength to keep her little family together, in the face of a world that will do everything it can to tear them apart.
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