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From critically-acclaimed, multiple-award-winner Laura Lippman comes a captivating tale of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two young girls banished from a community birthday celebration discover an abandoned stroller by having an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What goes on next is horrible and surprising, evoking the permanent destruction of three individual households. Eight decades later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are launched from “kid prison” to start their lives over again. However the secrets swirling round the unique offense continue steadily to bother the parents, the lawyers, law enforcement, and all of the people in Alice and Ronnie’s lives.