![]() When she meets William at Howard University, with his inky black eyes and broad shoulders, it's love at first sight. When she's imprisoned in a home for unwed mothers - locked in the House of Eve with other 'fallen girls' - everything she's worked so hard for starts slipping through her fingers.Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she's trying her hardest to run from. But falling madly in love with the one boy she is forbidden from threatens to pull Ruby back into poverty and desperation. ![]() She's going to be the first in her family to attend college, despite having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her only daughter. ![]() 'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against the odds.Philadelphia, 1948: Fifteen-year-old Ruby's dreams are almost within reach. ![]()
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