A Distant Shore by Karen Kingsbury
This book is being published by Atria Books and will be published on April 27, 2021 5 Stars The topic of human trafficking is an extremely difficult topic to read about. The author does a fantastic job of not going in to gruesome details about the horror of this practice but weaves grace in to the story. Eliza was raised as a Mennonite in Belize but then her father went away when she was around the age of 8. He requested for her and her mother and brother, Daniel to come to him. Later, Eliza is told that her mother and brother drowned in the ocean. At the age of 10, she is swimming in the ocean and is so despondent by the life at the Palace that her father has created, that she gives up when the riptide pulls her down. Jack is a teenager when he is on vacation with his family in Belize. He and his brother, Shane, are playing football and having a great time when they hear screams from the ocean. Jack and Shane run to investigate. This is t...