Its been a year since the Big Onethe Cascadia subduction zone earthquakedevastated Portland, and while Meryem Zarfatis injuries have healed and her neighborhood is rebuilding, her mother is still missing. Refusing to give up hope, Meryem continues to search for her mother even as she learns to live without her in a changed Portland. After she receives a magical prayer shawl handed down from her maternal grandmother, a mysterious stranger appears, and Meryem is called to save a young girl living in slaveryin sixteenth-century Istanbul. The third companion in the Oregon Book Awardwinning Blue Thread series explores how we recoverand rebuildafter the worst has happened.