Reviewer: Mary Lignor
Title: The Lost Hours
Author: Karen White
Publisher: Harley House Books/Penguin Group
ISBN-13: 978-0-451-22649-5
Release Date: April 2009
Genre/Sub-genre: Fiction
Year/Setting: Present Day
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Subtle
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Karen's Website: www.karen-white.com
Hi All,
When Piper Mills was twelve years old she helped her Grandfather bury a box in the back yard of their home in Savannah, where it remained untouched for twelve years. The box belonged to her Grandmother, who was now suffering from Altzheimers and living in a nursing home. Twelve years later, Piper's Grandfather passed away and she inherits the house and contents including a key to a room that no one knew about and secrets of her Grandmother and two friends from her youth.
Piper was once an Olympic hopeful in horseback riding and, after a very painful accident, decided that she must give up her Olympic dreams and went back to Savannah to live with her Grandparents and began a career in genealogy. When her Grandfather died she remembered the box and dug it up, finding scrap book pages and a charm of an angel on a chain. Also, an old newspaper article about a baby that was found in the river and a photo of her Grandmother and two other girls that she did not know. After her Grandmother passed away she started on a quest to find the two women and get to know her Grandmother in the process.
This is a wonderfully suspenseful book that will keep you on the edge of your chair for as long as it takes. And also, a story about a family that was torn apart by pain and death and a young woman who is determined to find out what kind of life her Grandmother led and who her two friends are and what happened to the infant that no one could remember. A great story of family, forgiveness and suspense. Enjoy it as much as I did.
Talk to you soon,
Mary
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