The Secret Crossing: One mother's daring voyage to save her baby

1954-1963. From Mar del Plata to the Adriatic and back across the Atlantic, a young mother chooses the unthinkable: she will not end her pregnancy-she will steal the sea. With a borrowed berth and a borrowed courage, Adela slips out of Argentina, crosses to Italy, and gives birth in hiding, plotting a return that won't break her family-or her promise to her daughter. Along the way she finds an unexpected harbor in André, the captain who keeps watch while the wind and the world judge.

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