How far would you go to protect the one you love most?
In 1966, a homeless war veteran discovers a newborn baby in a Toronto dumpster. The abandoned infant makes newspaper headlines across the city—then fades into history.
Nearly sixty years later, Sarah Byrne is determined to give her young son a stable life after the tragic death of her husband. But when she loses the only home she has left, mother and child are forced to live in their car.
The last person Sarah wants in her life is the man she blames for her husband's death. Yet as her options disappear, accepting his help may be the only way to keep her son safe.
Then an unexpected discovery reveals a decades-old secret that ties Sarah to the abandoned baby in ways no one could have imagined. As past and present collide, she must confront long-buried truths, impossible choices, and the surprising ways compassion can echo across generations.
Crime FictionSuspenseMysteryContemporary RomanceRomantic SuspenseWomen's FictionTeen & Young AdultAdvice & How Tomore»
BIOGRAPHY Joy Lynn Goddard and her husband Daniel Pike write adult fiction that blends mystery, romance, and suspense genres. Their first novel, Moonshadow, won a Book Excellence Award, a Reader Ready Award (Recommended Read), and a Canada Book Award. Their second book, The Keepers, also won a Canada Book Award. Besides novels, they wrote Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers, a collection of humorous short stories about the real estate industry.
Joy is well known for her young adult and junior fiction, with her books in schools across Canada; she also wrote Write Right, a step-by-step guide to writing a novel. She and Dan live in Belleville, Ontario, and are currently adapting A Good Mother into a screenplay. Learn more about them by visiting www.joygoddard.com.