The Memory Thief by Rachel Keener

Author:Rachel Keener [KEENER, RACHEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781599952703
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2010-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

They spent their honeymoon on the mountain. Daniel had wanted to take her far away, but she begged to stay. More than anything, Hannah told him, she just wanted to be home with him. She didn’t need to run away to celebrate.

So Daniel took her to his home, a small mountain condo near the ski lodges that overlooked the winter slopes. He held her through the nights while she lay sleeping in his arms. Sometimes he thought of her childhood, the bits and pieces she shared with him. About the dark days, locked within the gated neighborhood. About the horrible days doing the Holy Roller shuffle at school. Sometimes he hated his in-laws for it all. And yet he couldn’t deny that it had all worked together somehow to make Hannah. Beautiful, fragile, mysterious Hannah. Whose eyes had a shadow of sadness pass over them at the most surprising times. Like when he suggested just a weekend at the beach. “You don’t have to swim,” he told her, when she said she couldn’t. “We could just search for seashells. We could just count the waves.”

He lay awake and dared to wonder about that shadow that appeared without warning and vanished just as suddenly. Whatever it was, she was his now. And so was that sadness. Maybe she wasn’t strong enough to defeat it. But he promised himself—he pledged to his sleeping bride—he was.

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