The hardcover debut of award-winning author Susan Wiggs,
HOME BEFORE DARK is a contemporary novel that of the
emotional story of the lives and loves of two sisters in
the Texas Hill Country. Facing a life-altering crisis,
Jessie Ryder returns home to Texas to find
the child she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago, to
her very own
sister, Luz.
SummaryIn her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie
Ryder has seen the
world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far
enough to escape
a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen
years: the day
she gave her baby daughter away. Now she faces a life-
altering crisis, and
she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and
seek out Lila, even
if it means she has to upset the world of Lila's adoptive
mother, her very
own sister, Luz.
Jessie and Luz are drawn into an emotional tug-of-war
filled with moments of
unexpected humor, surprising sweetness and unbearable
sadness. And for
Jessie, life's bittersweet irony plays its hand. She meets
Dustin Matlock, a
young father who has survived devastating loss. Jessie
begins to see the
hopeful possibilities that lie buried in the most wrenching
tragedies. But
as the pain, regrets and mistakes of the past rise to the
surface, a new
picture emerges--a picture filled with hope and promise and
the redeeming
power of the human heart.
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