02269cam a2200361 i 4500 966931970 TxAuBib 20230907120000.0 200117s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020275265 9781542004527 1542004527 (OCoLC)1101946226 TxAuBib rda O'Neal, Barbara, 1959-, author. When we believed in mermaids / Barbara O'Neal. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2019] ©2019. 341 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news ... Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit's world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions-grief, loss, and anger-that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who's been living a lie. After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who'd become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives. Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything. 20230907. Sisters Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Betrayal Fiction. Reconciliation Fiction. Chick lit. Auckland (N.Z) Fiction. Domestic fiction. TXHSP