An intimate human drama about loss and recovery.

Alice Fisher is a composer and music professor. She and her husband David have two beautiful boys—Tobias and Jeremiah. But their seemingly perfect existence is shattered when the youngest dies suddenly of a rare illness.

In the years that follow, Alice and David seem to lose their bearings. When Toby seems to be struggling, they move him to an alternative school with a bizarre curriculum (“They don’t even teach reading, Mom”). Alice is uncomfortable with it, but David is drawn to everything about the place including one of Toby’s teachers—the striking woman with the long, tangled red hair.

Soon after David moves out of the house, a group of young men move in next door. Alice finds herself attracted to one of them, setting her further off kilter. How will they each find their way?

A compelling political mystery and IPPY Award Winner*

“ . . . RIVETING . . .” — Midwest Book Review

“ . . .fresh and eye-opening. . .” — Author Emily Yellin

“ . . . a satisfying page-turner . . .” — Jesse Davis, Memphis Flyer

During the blizzard of 1978, a woman is discovered face down at the edge of her Delaware estate, a dog half-dead by her side. Nearby, a CIA officer lies buried under two feet of snow. Their secret meeting—sabotaged. When Emma Quinn gets a call in her Manhattan apartment—your grandmother, found dead—she has no reason to suspect foul play. But she is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War—and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it.

*Silver Medal Winner—Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards (2020)