The Lost Hours

Author: White, Karen

Brand: Berkley

Color: Black

Edition: 1

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 368

Release Date: 07-04-2009

Part Number: 9780451226495

Details: Product Description
The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels 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 Piper’s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather’s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn’t exist—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 necklace—and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace’s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930s— 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.
Review
“Reads as an intricately plotted mystery....White makes a good case for why new generations should sustain ties with the old—and why certain stories have to be told, no matter how long it takes.”—
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Wonderful phrasing…leav[es] readers with a slice of history too haunting to be forgotten.”—
Charleston Magazine

“An evocative setting, dark family secrets, and a story that will keep you reading late into the night.”—Award-winning author Diane Chamberlain

“Characters and images as lush as the gardens of Georgia...satisfying and compelling.”—
RT Book Reviews
About the Author
Karen White is the 
New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series,
The Night the Lights Went Out, 
Flight Patterns, 
The Sound of Glass, 
A Long Time Gone, and 
The Time Between. She is the coauthor of 
The Forgotton Room with 
New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
 
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
 
EPILOGUE
Writen by todaās freshest new talents and selected by New American Library, NAL Accent novels touch on subjects close to a woman’s heart, from friendship to family to finding our plāce in the world. The Conversation Guides included in each book are intended to enrich the individual reading experence, as well as encourage us to explore these topics togehter—because books, and life, are meānt for shāring.
Visit us online at www.penguin.com.
Praise for the Novels of Karen White The House on Tradd Street
“Engaging ....White skillfully balances her tale at the meeting point of romance, mystery, and ghost story . . . a fun and satisfying read.”
—Publishers Weekly
 
“White delivers funny characters, a solid plot, and an interesting twist in this novel about the South and its antebellum history.”—Romantic Times
 
“Brilliant and engrossing . . . a rare gem . . . exquisitely told, rich in descriptions, and filled with multifaceted characters.”
—The Book Connection
 
“I loved this book! It was one of those that you struggle against putting down as the pages fly by. Karen White is an extremely talented and colorful writer with tons of imagination. If you are not a believer of the paranormal, you will be after reading this novel.”—Fresh Fiction
 
“The sights and smells of the old house, along with excellent dialogue and good pacing add up to a wonderful, mysterious, and ghostly tale.”
—Marilyn Hey

EAN: 9780451226495

Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English