From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami, former police officer Frank Mercy pulls a little boy from a submerged car. Not quite knowing why, Frank doesnt turn Ian over to the Red Cross. Instead he makes up a story about where the boy came from and takes him home, where Frank realizes that Ian has an otherworldly giftan extraordinary ability to transform lives beyond anything hed ever imagined. Awed and confused, Frank confesses Ians secret to Claudia, a beautiful champion rider who is training for the Olympics. They join together to fight the sinister forces gathering to take Ian back. In a final confrontation, Frank and Claudia will risk everythingtheir love, their family, their very livesto save this boy they now love as their own son.
