By Barbara Delinsky
From the recent York instances bestselling writer of greater than associates comes an emotionally charged novel that displays upon the results of 1 irrevocable act. within the idyllic small city of Tucker, Vermont, existence flows at a rhythmic velocity for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. but if Mara O'Neill, her ally and scientific associate, inexplicably kills herself, Paige's cozy lifestyles is by surprise shattered. briefly taking good care of Mara's newly followed child daughter whereas she involves grips along with her grief, Paige clings to the wish that, in time, her orderly existence will go back. What she hadn't counted on have been the unforeseen pleasures that frequently include switch, together with the contact of a guy who deals Paige issues she by no means inspiration she sought after. She hadn't counted on discovering the which means of lifestyles within the loss of life of a chum. for everybody who has ever made a call among what's and what will be, Barbara Delinsky unveils a really relocating reward from the center that captures one woman's tale and finally speaks to us all.
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All right,” came a call from behind, then abreast, “you can come talk with them tomorrow. ” 43 BARBARA DELINSKY She strode on. “Fine. But the baby will be with me. ” She swung open the car door and slid inside. ” he asked through the open window. “The alternative,” Paige said dryly, “is to strap her onto the passenger’s seat. Since she has about as much muscle control as a sack of potatoes—and since she isn’t particularly happy right now —I don’t think that’s a good idea. ” She started the car, shifted into gear, and pulled away from the curb.
Now she was gone. Paige closed her eyes. She held Sami closer, then closer still. The child was warm, silent but alive, and, in that, a comfort—but only until Paige began to think forward rather than back. Then, slowly, with dawning awareness, she opened her eyes and looked at the child, and in that instant, with the house locked, the agency representative gone, and Mara’s baby in her care, the reality of what she had done hit home. On as sorrowful a day as ever there was, it wasn’t sorrow she felt.
She may have been superstitious. ” “Even if she didn’t. She should have told us, damn it. We were her friends. She should have told us when the baby was coming. 46 SUDDENLY She should have told us she was upset—she should have told us she was taking Valium—she should have told us she was losing it. Damn it, Angie. ” “I’m coming over,” Angie said without another thought. ” Paige took a broken breath. “I’m okay. ” But Angie did. Attempts at normalcy notwithstanding, she was sick about Mara. She couldn’t blot out the image of that deep, dark hole in the ground into which the casket had been lowered earlier that day.