3.5* This was an enjoyable dual timeline story but the ending tied up too neatly for me to be a 4* read. ( )

I cried at the end of this book. It really touched my heart. It felt a little short, would of liked it to have lasted at least another day! Really, I just could not stop reading. Very good! ( )

what a great book! ( )

Lovely, evocative writing by Sarah Jio, who weaves together two stories, with a freak Seattle snowstorm in May as the tying element. In 1933, single mom Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and goes to work the night-shift at a local hotel. She returns home to find her son missing. In 2010, Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, is assigned to write about the current storm and learns of the prior storm and the unsolved abduction. Claire doggedly pursues the story despite the potential personal loss it may entail.

Jio manages to alternate chapters seamlessly between Vera Ray in 1933 and Claire Aldridge in 2010, portraying each time period quite well, but linking the stories in several ways, not just the two stories of love between a wealthy Seattle man and a woman from lesser means.




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Great read as all of Sarah Jio's books, but I did have a problem with the lack of communication between man and wife throughout the entire book. ( )