At the Water's Edge: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII" (Harper's Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants

"Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen's characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced."-The Boston Globe

In January 1945, when Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a retired army colonel who is ashamed of his son's inability to serve, Ellis decides that the o...