Soon thereafter all of Anthony’s family dies when the Titanic sinks. Constance, who has regular affairs with men, is cold, distant, and bitter because her deceased husband made some bad investments and lost nearly all their money, including Eleanor’s favorite childhood home, Loeanneth in Cornwall.Įleanor and Anthony marry. Constance and Eleanor have never gotten along. Eleanor’s mother Constance is not fond of Anthony simply because he doesn’t stand to inherit any of his father’s wealth. Anthony is the youngest child of a very wealthy, old, aristocratic family.

They meet when he saves her from being struck by a bus. Alice’s mother, Eleanor Edevane (née deShiel), falls in love with Anthony Edevane when she is young. Throughout the novel, the Edevane family history is slowly revealed.

When Sadie tries to get in touch with Alice to ask her about what happened those many years ago, Alice is forced to revisit the past she has tried to keep buried. She has carried a secret these past 70 years, believing she is indirectly responsible for Theo’s disappearance. She is in her eighties now, but she was only 16 when Theo went missing. This sparks Sadie’s investigation into the cold case.Īlice, the second-oldest daughter of Anthony and Eleanor Edevane, is a successful detective-story novelist. Bertie says that the house, Loeanneth, used to belong to the Edevane family, but they left after the youngest child, Theo, disappeared and was never found. Sadie enjoys running, and on one of her runs she comes across an abandoned lake house. Sadie goes to visit her grandfather Bertie in the Cornwall countryside. Donald tells Sadie he won’t inform on her, but she better take an extended vacation until things settle down. The superintendent of the Met is livid but doesn’t know who is responsible. After the newspaper publishes the story, Sadie’s partner Donald knows she was the leak. Sadie leaks to the press that the Met handled the case poorly. Maggie’s mother, Nancy, also firmly believes that something else happened to her daughter, that she didn’t just leave. Because of her past as a pregnant teen who had to give up her daughter (who after all these years is trying to get in touch with her), Sadie finds it hard to accept her colleagues’ belief that Maggie simply abandoned her daughter Caitlyn there are too many signs that convince her this isn’t what happened. She is investigating the disappearance of a young mother, Maggie Bailey. Sadie Sparrow is a detective with the Metropolitan Police Service (the Met) in London.

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