Close Enough to Cast a Shadow

Five years after Feeny's death, Anika believes she has learned to live with grief. She is wrong.

 

When she reunites in Munich with Valerie and her two sisters, the gathering intended to commemorate a lost friend becomes the beginning of an unexpected search. Valerie has discovered documents left behind by her father—a distinguished art historian whose death may not have been as natural as everyone believed. Secret correspondence, concealed identities, and forgotten archives gradually reveal a network reaching from King's College London to Aquileia and into the origins of European Christianity.

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As the women follow these traces across countries, generations, and buried memories, they discover that history is never merely what happened. It lives on in friendships, families, desires, betrayals, and the stories people choose to tell—or to hide.

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At its heart, Close Enough to Cast a Shadow is a novel about love after loss. It asks how we continue living with those who are gone, how memory shapes identity, and whether uncovering the past can become a way of finding a future.

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