Perfect for fans of the NYT bestseller Sold on a Monday and Where the Crawdads Sing, this Southern historical novel based on the true story of Bobby Dunbar's mysterious disappearance examines despair, loyalty, and the nature of truth.
Originally published in Australia as Half Moon Lake.
In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns.
The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, they search across the South, struggling not to give in to despair.
Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found.
But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. When Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides.
As the trial begins and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed.
