When lightning strikes, lives are changed.
BECCA
"On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns."
BUCKLEY
"In rural Arkansas, Buckley R. Pitank s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed but protective...

A "gripping, heartwarming" (Bookpage) novel about a family separated by oceans, generations, and war, but connected by something much greater--the gift of wings.

On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with heart-shaped wings pressed accordion-style against her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind.

In 1980, Prudence's mother takes her from Nashville to Florida, to a town inhabited by people who have run as far as they can without fins or wings. In this new town, Prudence is befriended by a boy who...