On Mystic Lake

by Kristin Hannah

Ballantine Books

Contemporary Romance

May 1, 2004

ISBN-13: 0345471172

Available in: Trade Size (reprint)

On Mystic Lake
by Kristin Hannah

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 love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six- year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, 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. . . .



Kristin Hannah's Bio

Kristin Hannah practiced entertainment and anti-trust law before becoming a full time writer. She is the award- winning, bestselling author of eight novels. In 1996, Home Again was named a Best Book by both Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal. She lives in a small town in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and young son.

2004 RITA Finalist for a Novel with Strong Romantic Elements