The Clockmaker's Daughter

<p><b>From the bestselling author of <i>The House at Riverton</i> and <i>The Forgotten Garden</i>, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in <i>The Clockmaker's Daughter.</i></b><br><br><i>My real name, no one remembers.</i><br><i>The truth about that summer, no one else knows.</i><br><br>In the depths of a nineteenth-century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. Then, in the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she retreats with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a quiet bend of the Upper Thames . . . Tensions simmer and, one hot afternoon, a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time.<br><