On Mystic Lake: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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

When Annie Colwater's only child leaves for school abroad, her husband confesses his love for a younger woman, leaving Annie feeling lonely and afraid.

Retreating to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, Annie is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving six-year-old daughter, Izzie.

Together, they begin to heal and learn that Annie 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.

This beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story will leave you in a satisfied glow.