In this follow-up to the riveting international bestseller
No Child of Mine, author Susan Lewis delivers an emotionally
complex novel—perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult—of
reinvention, reconnection, and the deepest love that can
bind two people together.
Charlotte Nicholls can hardly believe it, but it seems she’s
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 Charlotte’s birth mother, Anna, who has
recently reentered Charlotte’s 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 past—both recent and long buried—are
never far from Charlotte’s 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 Charlotte’s strength to keep her little family
together, in the face of a world that will do everything it
can to tear them apart.