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A family saga centering on three siblings – each dealing with their messy, shameful childhood in their own way. As questionable decisions, secrets and misguided deceptions mount, its pretty clear there are no easy answers to the age old question – just how far are we willing to go to protect those we love? And when does our ‘help’ become just the opposite?

Tara Connelly – a thirty-year-old convicted drug-trafficking felon, former art teacher and sibling to Eddie and Geraldine, is on the cusp of release from her eighteen-month prison sentence, the uncertainty of her future looming.

Eddie, her brother, a single dad, battles the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury, as he struggles with migraines, seizures, memory issues and the rocky road they leave him on, in his attempts to provide emotional and financial stability for his young son.

Geraldine, the oldest of the three, who has raised her brother and sister from the age of nineteen, has deeply entrenched her family role as the sensible caretaker- a role as suffocating now at thirty-seven years old as it is untenable.

Without giving the plot away, (no spoilers here), this is a story of love, and learning, and letting go, – and a family’s ultimate journey to healing, with plenty of stops, and starts, and misfires along the way.

A good read, this book will appeal to lovers of family-driven character-rich fiction.

A great big thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.

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