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Harper
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
Featuring: Joanna Millard
384 pages
ISBN: 0062390163
EAN: 9780062390165
Kindle: B0124OOJ2Y
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Women's Fiction
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Waltersโ Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Klineโs The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrensonโs mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy pastโwhere two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes. Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company: he is determined to discover the truth involving a childโs kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic coastline over two decades ago. Joannaโs subsequent search leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she will find answers in The Alliance, a novel written by American Esta Hartford. The book recounts an American coupleโs experience in Portugal during World War II, and their entanglements both personal and professional with their German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isnโt fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she begins to suspect that Esta Hartfordโs story and Nathan Emberlinโs may indeed converge in Faroโwhere the past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very present danger.
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