The Metal Heart

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Growing up on Scotland's Orkney Islands, identical twins Constance and Dorothy Reid are inseparable, bound by their love of the sea. Haunted by a traumatic past and their parents' tragic disappearance, at age 23 in the fall of 1941, Con and Dot make a new life on the nearby island of Selkie Holm despite tales of a curse and creatures swimming in its waters. As WWII seeps into their lives, the twins soon find themselves neighbors to an encampment of Italian war prisoners charged with building barricades between the islands. Dot recklessly saves Cesare, a prisoner that has fallen into the frigid waters, and the two form an immediate connection, risking everything to steal away secret moments. Dot and Cesare's love is tested by illness, death, and war, but theirs isn't the only love story Lea tells. The twins' powerful bond is unbreakable until one must make the ultimate choice