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  Publication Date:  April 27, 2004 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Fiction, Romance  Publisher:  Ballantine Books       Length:  448 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis 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...

  Publication Date:  September 21, 2010 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Fiction Publisher:  Ballantine Books       Length:  432 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation. To reach her, Julia ...