On Mystic Lake / Summer Island Author:Kristin Hannah ON MYSTIC LAKE — Kristin Hannah give us this poignant, tender, and true story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together. — 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... more » 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. . . .
On Mystic Lake is the story of one seemingly ordinary woman, but the novel speaks to all of us, to anyone who has ever had to choose between what is . . . and what could be.
SUMMER ISLAND
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. Now she is a radio talkshow host and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. Her daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. The two haven't spoken in more than a decade.
When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret form Nora's past, everything changes. A magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother, but first Ruby needs to get to know her well enough to write it.
So Ruby returns to Summer Island, the small Washington state island where she grew up. But coming home is never simple...« less