PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast.
Inspired by a true literary mystery, a sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both…
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book that became a national sensation. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother…
By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter. When a stranger contacts her from London claiming to have discovered something that could lead to her mother’s disappearance, Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic and finds refuge in a family retreat nestled in the Lake District and it is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind…