Meissner’s heroines, Clara and Taryn, live a century apart, but their stories are connected not just by a bright scrap of fabric but by love lost. “Like the golden threads of a scarf sprinkled with marigolds, Susan Meissner weaves two unspeakable New York tragedies-the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and 9/11-into a shimmering novel of love and acceptance. Touching and inspirational.”- Kirkus Reviews Read more “ creates two sympathetic, relatable characters that readers will applaud.

But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers.the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. What she learns could devastate her-or free her.

Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries.and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. A beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy in this compelling, emotional novel from the author of As Bright as Heaven and The Last Year of the War.

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