Mitchard's latest combines elements of science fiction and suspense with a heartfelt meditation on family and grief. In a final confrontation, Frank and Claudia will risk everything-their love, their family, their very lives-to save this boy they now love as their own son. They join together to fight the sinister forces gathering to take Ian back. Awed and confused, Frank confesses Ian's secret to Claudia, a beautiful champion rider who is training for the Olympics. Instead he makes up a story about where the boy came from and takes him home, where Frank realizes that Ian has an otherworldly gift-an extraordinary ability to transform lives beyond anything he'd ever imagined. Not quite knowing why, Frank doesn't turn Ian over to the Red Cross. 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.
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