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Caddo Parish, 1913. On an October morning, a Klansman confronts 17-year-old David Walker at a hidden oxbow lake where he has gone to hunt. David accidentally kills the man and hides the crime. His determination to protect his family from reprisal drives him far from home and into manhood. Shreveport, 1927. Cargie Barre and Mae Compton are two vastly different young women, but both are defying convention to reach for their dreams. After years in hiding, David Walker finally resurfaces, and we discover the past is never as far from the present as it seems.

Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the Sonora Desert region of northern Mexico, is caught in the Expulsion of all Jesuits in 1767. After enduring eight years of prison and abuse, he is incarcerated in Caridad Monastery where the abbot recruits him to help solve two murders. In the course of his investigations, Father Ignaz finds his own life in peril.

Als die Journalistin Emilia Lukin bei einer Auktion das Gemälde einer jungen Frau entdeckt, meint sie in ihr eigenes Spiegelbild zu blicken. Kann es sich um ihre Großmutter Sophie handeln? Um deren extravagantes Künstlerleben im Paris der 1930er-Jahre ranken sich wilde Gerüchte, Emilias Mutter Pauline aber hüllt sich in Schweigen. Emilia lässt das traurige Lächeln auf dem Porträt nicht mehr los, und so folgt sie dessen Spuren in die Provence und nach Paris.