When she fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern—marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes effortlessly weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war.

Set in Brooklyn in 1938, this gripping psychological mystery begins when 45-tear-old Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. Phillip Gellburg is desperate to find out what is crippling his attractive, level-headed wife. The doctor can find nothing wrong.

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