Together forever - 2

Marianne Neumann has one goal in life: to find her lost younger sister, Sophie.

When Marianne takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York, she not only hopes to give children a better life but seeks to discover whether Sophie ended up leaving the city on an orphan train. Andrew Brady, her fellow agent on her first placing trip, is a former schoolteacher who has an easy way with the children - - firm but tender and funny.

Underneath his handsome charm, though, seems to linger a grief that won't go away - and a secret from his past that he keeps hidden.

As the two team up placing orphans amid small railroad towns in Illinois, they find themselves growing ever closer, until a shocking tragedy threatens to upend all their work and change one of their lives forever.