THE RETURNING THREAD

An infant is left in a canvas tote bag outside a daycare center at dawn — not crying, not distressed, but watching Caroline Reyes with a steadiness no newborn should have. As the boy, Elias, grows up in the Hale family, a golden thread of unexplained connection binds him to a girl named Vera he's never met, pulling both children toward a mystery buried in a hemlock-woods archive and a century-old ...