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The Lost Hours

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The award-winning author of The Memory of Water delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.

When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched.

Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piperâ€™s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfatherâ€™s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesnâ€™t existâ€”or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklaceâ€”and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklaceâ€™s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930sâ€” each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.
Country USA
Manufacturer Berkley
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-04-07
Format Kindle eBook