From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel set in London in 1944,about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world warand the healing and hope they find in one another. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no goodbut for a very good reason. Without parentspeerageor meritducking school but barred from actual workhe steals what he needsliving day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the BlitzCharlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via \



