When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal

To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything. When the story begins, Kit is shocked to see her sister in the background of a news broadcast from New Zealand, thousands of miles away from their home in California-especially since Josie had been killed 15 years earlier. 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. When We Believed in Mermaids is an engrossing, turbulent, and poignant book about two sisters, Kit and Josie. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. 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.Īfter arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. In When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal (2019), we meet Kit, a Santa Cruz ER doctor, and travel with her to New Zealand to look for her presumed-dead sister, Josie, after catching a glimpse of her in a news story. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world.

When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O

It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed.

Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Barbara O'Neal is the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and 1 Amazon Charts bestselling writer of women's fiction. Her sister has been dead for 15 years when she sees her on the TV news. An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best sellerįrom 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. When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel by Barbara ONeal is an Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.

When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal