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The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war. Luc Crpet is accustomed to his mother bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic chteau in the French countryside. Yet his maman's newest project is the most surprising: Claire Ross, a fifteen-year-old Scottish girl who inspires Luc in ways he never thought possible. Then, just as suddenly as Claire arrives, she is gone, whisked away by her grandfather to the farthest reaches of the globe. When she returns years later, World War I is raging. Will Luc and Claire, both altered by the conflict and the many years apart, be able to find each other and recapture what was lost
About the Author
Jessica Brockmole is the author of the internationally bestselling LETTERS FROM SKYE, which was named one of the best books of 2013 by Publishers Weekly, AT THE EDGE OF SUMMER, and "Something Worth Landing For," a novella featured in FALL OF POPPIES: Stories of Love and the Great War. She lives in northern Indiana with her husband, two children, and far too many books.
