 The two meet in the novel's opening pages, when Verona, single and seven months pregnant, shows up at the house where Zeke is working, claiming to be related to its owners who have left town.When Zeke returns the next morning, he discovers that Verona is gone; the two spend the rest of the novel trying to reconnect.In 2008, Livesey published "The House on Fortune Street", a novel constructed of four interwoven narratives