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When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request -- that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos -- seems like it isn't worth her time. But when she loses her job after a botched investigation, she suddenly finds herself with nothing but time.



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Erin Bartels

ERIN BARTELS is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, The Words between Us, All That We Carried, and The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water. Her short story "This Elegant Ruin" was a finalist in The Saturday Evening Post 2014 Great American Fiction Contest and her poetry has been published by The Lyric. She lives in the capital city of a state that is 40% water, nestled somewhere between angry protesters on the Capitol lawn and couch-burning frat boys at Michigan State University. And yet, she claims it is really quite peaceful.You can find her on Instagram @erinbartelswrites and Facebook @ErinBartelsAuthor.



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