On Mystic Lake ( Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Reprint) (Paperback) by Kristin Hannah

On Mystic Lake is a poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together.

Through its heroine, Annie Colwater, the novel speaks to anyone who has ever had to choose between what is and what could be.

When Annie's only child leaves for school abroad, her husband confesses he's in love with a younger woman, leaving Annie alone in the house that is no longer a home.

Retreating to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, Annie begins to heal and reclaim the woman she once was - the woman she is now desperate to become again.

With the help of her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving six-year-old daughter, Izzie, 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.

Will she choose to hold on to the love of her life or risk everything for a chance at happiness? Find out in this heartwarming and emotionally charged novel that will leave you breathless.