A quiet coastal village in post-World War II America is shaken when
the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the
bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon.
Five years after the war, Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an
Allied unit in England, returns to her hometown in Maine. Jobless and
discouraged but stubbornly resourceful, she's starting over in the same
coastal village where her life once went so wrong. Waiting for her is
Shibby Travis, the surrogate mother with whom Amie never lost touch. But
the unexpected also awaits...
A silent, abandoned boy is found with a note from a stranger pleading
that he be watched over. Amie and Shibby take him in, but the mysteries
multiply when a Boston socialite is found dead in a nearby barn and an
old friend, believed to be a casualty of war, suddenly reappears.
Trained to see what others cannot, to scan for clues, and to expose
enemies, Amie uses her skills to protect a child, solve a crime, and
find the motive behind a veteran's masquerade. But through the hazy
filter of a town's secrets, Amie must also confront her own painful
past.
