At the fragile age of six, Piper Mills tragically lost
both her parents. Despite her unfortunate circumstances,
she grew up believing her determination and strong will
would always see her through.
With the encouragement of her loving grandparents, she
becomes an Olympic hopeful making a name for herself on the
equestrian circuit. Her future looks bright and promising.
Nothing will stand in Piper's way.
As fate would have it, she suffers a devastating
fall at the pinnacle of her career leaving her body as well
as her spirit lame. With her dreams shattered, she retreats
back home to Savannah, alone and afraid, searching for
solace within the four walls that protect her from the
harsh realities of life.
While searching for the missing pieces of her soul,
she stumbles upon her deceased grandmother's scrapbook
depicting a life Piper never knew existed. Trying
desperately to make a connection with her family, she
embarks on a journey to uncover the past not realizing she
has inadvertently chosen to open Pandora's Box.
Tucker Gibbons is running away from a life filled
with only sorrow and pain. The only person able to keep him
afloat is his loving grandmother. Since the tragic death of
his wife, all that is left is a dulling numbness which
consumes the very core of his being. He knows his two
daughters need him, yet he is unable to move forward. Why
did his wife kill herself? And more importantly, is he the
one to blame?
Drawn together by familial bonds, Piper and Tucker soon
realize that the answers to their questions just might be
the key to opening the door to their futures. Will these
two wounded souls finally be able to heal? Or, is it better
to leave the secrets from the past behind?
THE LOST HOURS is a powerful story evoking the
distant memories of the old South hidden behind shocking
scandals and disquieting family secrets. Through vivid
details and emotionally charged characters, White creates
this year's must-read novel. Without a doubt, THE LOST
HOURS is most definitely a labor of
love.
The award-winning author of The Memory of Water
delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and
forgiveness.
When Piper Mills was twelve, she
helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her
grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained
untouched.
Now a near fatal riding accident has
shattered Piper’s dreams of Olympic glory. After her
grandfather’s death, she inherits the house and all its
secrets, including a key to a room that doesn’t exist—or
does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing
home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it
are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace—and a
newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant
found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace’s charms
tell the story of three friends during the 1920s— each charm
added during the three months each friend had the necklace
and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always
dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell.
And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.
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