“This book will open your mind and heart in equal measure.” Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time “Mitchard’s latest novel explores the fascinating question of those who have extraordinary gifts, what responsibility comes with those gifts, and where the line of morality falls between those poles. “A troubled protagonist, beset by disaster and malefaction, is touched by magic.” … Mitchard deftly weaves together domestic drama with taut suspense as she builds to a heart-stopping climax.” “Mitchard returns with another heartbreaker.” A suspenseful novel on a grand scale, Two If by Sea is about the best and worst in people, and the possibility of heroism and even magic in ordinary life. Even as Frank and Claudia dare to hope for new love, it becomes clear that they can never let Ian go, no matter what the cost. The fight to keep Ian safe from a sinister group who want him back takes readers from the ravaged shores of Brisbane to the middle of America to a quaint English village. Already, ominous coincidences have put Frank’s police instincts on high alert, as strangers trespass the quiet life at the family farm.

Both of them know that it will be impossible to keep Ian’s gift a secret forever. As Frank struggles to start over, training horses as his father and grandfather did before him, he meets Claudia, a champion equestrian and someone with whom he can share his life-and his fears for Ian. Not long into their journey, Frank begins to believe that Ian has an extraordinary, impossible telepathic gift but his only wish is to protect the deeply frightened child. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the boy home to the Midwestern farm where he grew up. In that moment, Frank’s own life is transformed.

Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child’s life with only seconds to spare. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Audioįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, an epic story of courage and devotion that spans three continents and the entire map of the human heart.

Two If by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard