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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
"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
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Hannah, Kristin
- ISBN: 9780345471178
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.01 x 0.97
- Number Of Pages: 448
- Publication Year: 2004
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"Love can rise above tragedy and give us a way home.”
Jennifer E. - 3 years 7 months ago“Here, in Mystic, the sky started deep in the palm of God’s hand and unfurled as far as the eye could see…It could turn from sunshine to snow in a heartbeat, leaving nothing but a blood red rainbow that wept into ebony at the edges...The heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you’d bleed forever.” When her husband announces he’s having an affair and wants a divorce, there’s only one asset Annie wants: “My heart. I want it back in one piece.” She retreats to her hometown where she reconnects with a “man who’d accidentally opened a door on her old life and shown her the truth...She’d thought dreams were the toys of childhood, to be put away when real life came to call.” “Annie had made so many mistakes, and most of them had been because she’d planted herself firmly in the middle of the road. But now she knew that life without risk was impossible, and if by chance you stumbled across a safe, serene existence, it was because you’d never really reached for anything in the first place.” It is on the shores of Mystic Lake that Annie blossoms into a woman who dares to dream of her own bookstore and “wager her heart on a game as risky as love.” Alongside recovering alcoholic Nick and his selective mute daughter Izzy, Annie stitches a patchwork family, “quilted together from the scraps of their separate lives.” Annie discovers how “deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life…Love can rise above tragedy and give us a way home.” Kristin Hannah’s On Mystic Lake “spun its gossamer strands around [my] heart and romanced [me] beyond repair.”