First published 2017
Aubrey Wallace lives invisible in small town Vermont until the day he disappears with Dotty Johnson, a woman who turns heads wherever she goes. The next day, two hundred miles south in Massachusetts, a toddler vanishes from her home. For five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the stolen child they call Canny drift from place to place, bound together by crime and an odd family love built on desperate circumstances. Aubrey pours all his devotion into caring for Canny, finding purpose he never knew before. But Dotty grows restless with their fugitive life and the anxious man who shares it. When she takes up with a violent ex-convict, their fragile world begins to crack. The wheels turn toward an inevitable reckoning that will tear Canny from the only father she remembers and return her to parents she cannot recall.
Genres: literary-fiction, suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Vermont, Massachusetts
Period: Contemporary
292 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media
Content warnings: violence