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With a seven-year age difference, Ryke Meadows and Daisy Calloway have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple, their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke and Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together. They promise: To never slow down. To never compromise who they are. To never abandon their love for each other. But preserving their happiness also means taking more risks. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to danger, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health. With their lives on the line, Ryke and Daisy head towards the vast, wild unknown.

“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.

Es la primavera de 1976, y han pasado veinte años desde que Eilis se casó con Tony Fiorello y abandonó Brooklyn para mudarse a Long Island, junto a su extensa familia política. Ahí nacieron sus hijos, Rosella y Larry, y durante estos años ha vivido en aparente armonía, hasta que un hombre con acento irlandés aparece en la puerta de su casa con una inesperada noticia que hace que la frágil paz conyugal, compuesta de atronadores silencios, se tambalee. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, Eilis se siente lejos de su Irlanda natal y decide regresar a Enniscorthy, a un mundo que creía haber dejado atrás y a unas maneras de vivir, y de amar, que pensaba haber perdido del todo. ¿Se equivocó al elegir a Tony? ¿Es demasiado tarde para cambiar de rumbo?