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Easter and Ruby Quillby are in the foster care system in North Carolina since their mother died and their father gave up parental rights years earlier. They are starting to settle into their foster home when their father Wade shows up. He is a washed up minor-league baseball player who has a problematic life but now he says he wants his girls back and to do right by them. He comes to the foster home and steals them away. The only problem is that Wade is being hunted by Robert Pruitt, a man with a vendetta against him and a paid hit man for the group from whom Wade stole money. Set with the McGwire/Sosa home run battle in the background, the story culminates in St Louis.
The narration is divided between Easter, Pruitt and Brady Weller, the appointed guardian looking for the two girls. All the voices are genuine and engaging and the story leads you onward to the end. Four stars out of Five.
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