Excerpt from Pool House by Mary Choi, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Unlike her daughter, he answers on the second ring. Of course he does. Her sweet, sweet boy. She needs him to come. It's time for him to come home. To her house. To be close.

"Dano?"

"Moonie," he says, and her heart cracks wide. She looks at the dipping light in her window. It will be early where he is.

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