

She has tried hard to forget those days in The Dragon House, but memories of her time there never left her entirely, “it felt like a good dream with a nightmare ending”.Īllison decides to go back to see Dr. Capello is very ill and doesn’t have long to live. The letter from Roland informs her that Dr. But then something happens and she’s taken from Oregon, and never hears from any of the Capello’s again. Capello was known for helping needy children and even adopted some of them. Vincent Capello, a famous brain surgeon in Oregon.

Somehow she was one of the “ lucky ones” taken in by Dr. When Allison was young her mother passed away and Allison ended up in foster care. When she sees the name and return address she almost passes out from shock. You’re firing me.”Īs he is leaving, Allison notices a small package addressed to her in the box that he brought with him. Her lover is breaking up with her….though he prefers thinking they had a “friendly business arrangement” We meet Allison Lamarque in the present day as she struggling to hold it together. The blurb was interesting, I love stories filled with secrets and lies! “The Lucky Ones” was my first read from Tiffany Reisz. She's determined to find out what really happened that fateful night-was it an accident or, as she's always suspected, did one of her beloved family members try to kill her?īut digging into the past can reveal horrific truths, and when Allison pieces together the story of her life, she'll learns the terrible secret at the heart of the family she once loved but never really knew.Ī vivid and suspenseful tale of family, grief, love-and the dark secrets that bind everything together-Tiffany Reisz’s latest is enthralling to the final page. Allison determines she must go home again and confront the ghosts of her past.

Capello’s oldest son, warning her that their father is ill and in his final days. Now, thirteen years later, Allison receives a letter from Roland, Dr. Allison was the youngest of the lucky ones living an idyllic life with her newfound family…until the night she almost died, and was then whisked away from the house and her adopted family forever. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. They called themselves “the lucky ones.” They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr.
