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Two women - separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom - reclaim family secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.. New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads - her ten-year-old son Sam had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, in a search for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory's forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother's adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend Monk Adams - now one of the world's most beloved singer-songwriters - a fairytale cut short by an agonizing betrayal.