Book description
From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel, a beautifully repackaged and updated edition of “one of her best” (RT Book Reviews) historical novels.
Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she…
Why read it?
1 author picked When We Meet Again as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love historical fiction with mystery and long-held secrets centered around a piece of art, and where the story teaches me something I never learned in school. Harmel does it beautifully in this evocative novel with the POW internment camps in Florida during WWII.
Hooked on page one, I was captured by the protagonist’s hunger for roots and family, and kept turning pages to uncover the mystery of Emily’s family along with her. This page-turner is heartbreaking as well as heartwarming, and it set me off to reading all of Harmel’s novels.
From Linda's list on The best historical fiction with mysteries around long-held family secrets.
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