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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle comes a “heartbreaking, action-packed” novel (The New York Times) about a woman indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia.Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the beginning of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie has few memories of her mother, who died in a violent argument with the Duke. When she was eight years old, the Duke remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father's daughter, smart and resourceful, Eddie is his mother's son, shy and intelligent. When Sallie tries to teach young
Eddie to be more like his father, her daring training leads to an accident and Sallie is kicked out.Nine years later, she returns, determined to regain her place in the family. Things are much more complicated than Sallie expected and she enters a world of conflict and chaos. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals lurking in the shadows of the Big House, navigates factions within family and town, and ultimately becomes a daring, sometimes reckless smuggler.
"You'll love Sallie from page one and keep pursuing her until the last" (Good Housekeeping) in this thriller that "flows as easily...as the forbidden whiskey that defines life by Sallie Kincaid
