<b>An instant <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series </b><b>is </b><b>“a</b><b>pitch perfect, richly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age tale” </b><b>(</b><b>Kristin Hannah, #1 </b><b><i>New York Times </i></b><b>bestselling author) </b><b>about </b><b>fathers and sons, small-town conflicts, and the events that shape our lives forever.</b><BR><BR>Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O’Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself.<BR><BR>Cork’s fat