Characters
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| Rill Foss (Girl)
, Lived with her parents and four younger siblings on a shanty boat on the Mississippi River until the day their father rushed their mother to the hospital; they were taken from their home and thrown into an orphanage; fights to keep her siblings together |
| Avery Stafford (Female)
, Prosecutor
, Engaged
, Upper class
, Returns home to help her father through a health crisis; a chance encounter compels her to look into her family's long-hidden history |
Genre
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| Fiction |
| Domestic |
| Historical |
| Saga |
Topics
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| Adoption |
| Adopted children |
| Orphanages |
| Scandal |
| Kidnapping |
| Illegal adoption |
| Family histories |
| Social classes |
| Secrets |
| Siblings |
Setting
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| Mississippi - South (U.S.) |
| Tennessee - South (U.S.) |
| South Carolina - South (U.S.) |
Time Period
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| 1939 -- 20th century |
| 2000s -- 21st century |