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In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them.

Story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles... and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at... the Cottage.

Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life.

When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph.

In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer.

In a seaside town in Haiti, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his daughter Claire so she can have a better life.