Mary Anne Kelly’s Land of Second Chances comes out in paperback on Friday, January 16.
Claire and Morgan fly to Florida to bury his father, a noted horologist. That same night, six young Haitian girls arrive aboard a sampan in the hopes of becoming party boat hostesses. Claire spots one girl stranded in a towering bramble of sea grape and she’s determined to help, no matter how it will complicate her life with self-absorbed Morgan, but she’ll need the help of Isidor, who is not what she, or he, appears to be. Upstairs, the mysterious aristocrat who lives in the penthouse is eager to help. Claire’s glamorous nemesis — a girl who lives to torment — turns Morgan’s head and implicates her in a murder. Meanwhile, an integral trove of genuine antique timepieces are nowhere to be found. Out of the blue magnetic, retired NYPD detective Johnny Benedetto shows up.
