Kirkus Reviews: A propulsive thriller with a compellingly escapist plot... Sinclair's prose is taut and fluent. Two women, lives marked by adversity, but with stories that begin decades apart. What is it that links their tragic lives, and will these secrets destroy them? TRANSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 1989 When her father inexplicably disappears, 13-year-old Roxana sets out alone to Ceausescu’s Bucharest, amid revolution and upheaval, in search of the mother who long-ago abandoned her. LONDON, JUNE 2019 When a photograph mysteriously appears on her laptop, Izabella’s world collapses, although she doesn’t understand why. All she knows is that the image is a key to her forgotten past, but its discovery threatens the only person she ever loved.