when we believed in mermaids: a novel  <p><b>an amazon charts, <i>washington post</i>, <i>wall street journal</i>, and <i>usa today</i> bestseller.</b></p><p><b>from the author of <i>the art of inheriting secrets</i> comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.</b></p><p><i>her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the tv news...</i></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>