Author: tarasheanesbit

“Gripping… Truly a riveting read” (Helen Simonson): Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the community is rocked by a stranger’s arrival — and a shocking murder. “Readers who enjoy historical fiction, told with fine literary style, will be delighted” (Library Journal).

Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.The “haunting . . . impressive” (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.They … atomic bomb.They arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a…