In the aftermath of a devastating event, a once-close family is torn apart by the burden of an ancient feud between their ancestors. The father, along with his sons, seeks refuge in the depths of South America, while the mother takes to the road across the United States, hiding with their only daughter.
Five years later, a single phone call from an old ally summons the brothers back to the U.S., urgently needed to help their sister. But when they arrive, they discover she isn't the only one in need of their assistance. There's someone else-someone they knew existed but had never met: their youngest sister, Estella. She was the child their mother was pregnant with when she fled their family home in Connecticut so many years ago.
Now, Estella's world has been turned upside down, and the family is thrust into a heart-wrenching reunion. Told through the innocent eyes of a five-year-old girl, this is a story of a broken family struggling to protect one another from the cruel forces that have torn them apart. Will the innocence of a child be enough to heal the wounds of the past, or has time already sealed their fate forever?
𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓼𝓮 is thirteen years old and, as far as she's concerned, doesn't have a family.
She's been trapped in foster care for the majority of her life, being passed from foster parents to foster parents, and that's how she expects it to be until she's eighteen and free from the system. But things take an unexpected turn when her social worker tells her she does have parents, and they want her back.
So she moves from England to New York, and is suddenly thrusted into a life of seeming perfection. She expects, or rather hopes, that she'll be happy with her true family, but between a harsh sister, strict parents, dealing with narcolepsy and an obvious secret within the family, Adelina slowly realises that isn't the case.