A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her…
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Thirteen-year-old MacKenzie (Mac) Lawrence secretly blames himself for his father's death in a mall shooting. In his grief and guilt he has pulled away from everyone, even his twin sister Tessa. When Mac runs away to break up Mom's relationship with a man named Simon, nothing goes as planned. He ends up injured, miles from home, unable to reach out for help, while clues he inadvertently left behind suggest he's been kidnapped--possibly by Mom's boyfriend--and set Tessa on a desperate search to find him. But she'd better hurry, because the clock is ticking and Mac is running out of time.
