"Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions—grief, loss, and anger—that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.

After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives.

Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything."

Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 1 mp3-CD; read by Sarah Naughton & Katherine Littrell)

Sisters Kit and Josie grew up in an "it's complicated" kind of childhood on the coast of California. Josie, the older of the two, fled as soon as she got the chance, living a somewhat free and hazardous lifestyle. Then she was killed in a train accident in Europe, victim of a terrorist attack. Or at least that's what Kit and her mother were led to believe, until one day they see her as a bystander on a news report out of New Zealand. Needing to know the truth, Kit hops on a plane to the Kiwi Land and ends up discovering more than she bargained for.

This book was a pleasant surprise. I was not familiar with this author or this title, though several friends had recently read and enjoyed it, so I gave it a go. While in the wrong writer's hands this had the potential to possibly be a sappy story, it wasn't. It was written well and had a lot of elements that I enjoy in a novel: some family dysfunction, underlying secrets, drama, good character & relationship development, etc. I was really sad to see this one end. And now I really want to travel to New Zealand.

Sending off to PBS member. Enjoy! :')

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