From RT Book Reviews: "This lovely story, with its aura of sadness, may remind some readers of Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds…. She keeps them turning the pages to watch her appealing characters find their true paths. This is a story that lingers long after the satisfying end.”

From the publisher: "Hearts and dreams evolve in the shadow of the once-magnificent Penn Station. Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera's life to unexpected possibilities. Angelo's new wife, Pearl has defied her family's expectations by devoting herself to the suffrage movement. In Pearl, Vera finds an unexpected dear friend…and a stirring new cause of her own. Her choice will define not only her future but also that of her daughter, Alice. Vera and Alice—a generation and a world apart—as first mother and then daughter come of age in a city that is changing as rapidly as its skyline, they'll each discover that love is the only constant."

From the publisher: "After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. She's free from confinement—and ready to tell her secrets before it's too late. She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. Moving and engrossing, this dual story alternates between Della's dark ordeals of the 1940s and Mick’s present-day search for answers―about roots, family, love, and what is truly important in life."