The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding: A Novel
English
By (author): Lydia Kang
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hidden identities, wartime paranoia, and the tantalizing power of deceit.
Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts.
But the siblings quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs. This stranger harbors an obsession with poisons, an affection for fine things, and a singular talent for killing small creatures. As she draws Will and Maggie deeper into her mysterious past, they both begin to suspect shes quite dangerousall while falling helplessly under her spell.
With whispers of spies in dark corners and the worlds first atomic bomb in the works, the visitors sudden presence in Maggies and Wills lives raises questions about who she is and what she wants. Is this mysterious woman someone they can trustor a threat to everything they hold dear?
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