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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 Walters’ Beautiful Ruins
with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina
Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s
mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny
Portuguese town with a shadowy past—where 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 child’s
kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic
coastline over two decades ago. Joanna’s 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 couple’s
experience in Portugal during World War II, and their
entanglements both personal and professional with their
German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isn’t
fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance,
she begins to suspect that Esta Hartford’s story and
Nathan Emberlin’s may indeed converge in Faro—where the
past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very
present danger.
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