Alyssa Wilkinson, Author

For eleven and a half years, Duke Foster has been passed from one crummy foster family to another- one hundred and two of them, in fact. Since the day she was dumped on the steps of Merciful Heart Children’s Home in Brooklyn she’s had almost nothing but bad luck. She’s a pest. A nuisance. The reason her case worker carries a jumbo-sized bottle of headache medicine in his briefcase. Unlovable.
In a strange twist of fate, a fire in her tenement building sets in motion a series of events that will lead her to discover that not only does she have parents, (the wonderful kind who love you and play Parcheesi and would never leave you on a doorstep,) but she also has a sister. A twin sister. One who was adopted to a family in lowcountry coastal Georgia and who shares Duke’s love of Nancy Drew detective novels.
As their paths cross in 1968, Duke and Daisy embark on a mystery of their own to find their biological parents- a journey that includes a circus bursting with dark secrets, hurricanes, and cats with very fluffy ears. But just as quickly as they are unraveling the mystery of their pasts, someone else is trying to bury any remaining clues, keeping them from their biological parents and the truth behind their family forever.