Hannah makes her hardcover debut with this poignant, tender and true story of love, loss and the fragile threads that bind families together. Through its heroine, the seemingly ordinary Annie Colwater, the novel speaks to anyone who has ever had to choose between what is and what could be. A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.--Diana Gabaldon Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman she is now desperate to become again. In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, Annie learns that she can love without losing herself. But just when she has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again, and Annie must make a choice no woman should have to make. . . . Praise for On Mystic Lake Marvelous . . . a touching love story . . . You know a book is a winner when you devour it in one evening and hope there's a sequel. . . . This page-turner has enough twists and turns to keep the reader up until the wee hours of the morning. -- USA Today Superb . . . I'll heartily recommend On Mystic Lake to any woman . . . who demands that a story leave her in a satisfied glow. -- The Washington Post Book World A luminescent story . . . Kristin Hannah touches the deepest, most tender corners of our hearts. --Tami Hoag Excellent . . . On Mystic Lake is an emotional experience you won't soon forget. -- Rocky Mountain News Propels readers forward to the final chapter. -- The Seattle Times
In this love story called marvelous and superb by the critics, a woman troubled by the departure of her daughter and her husband seeks solace in her hometown of Mystic, Washington, and strikes up a relationship with an embittered, grieving widower and his shattered little girl. A poignant and tender
The wonderful new historical romance from the bestselling author of The Enchantment. Mad Dog Stone was a carefree drifter, a man in need of love. Mariah Throckmorton was hiding from a painful past. Theirs was a love born against all odds, impossible to count on, able to exist only if you believe. .
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Kristin] Hannah is superb at delvi
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