From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house.
“Hauck is a master at weaving together plots from multiple time periods.” —Library Journal
Embracing the future means remembering the past . . .
When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Eighteen years later, she’s a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. Meanwhile a mysterious letter arrives informing her she’s inherited a house along Florida’s northern coast, and what she discovers there will change her life forever. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a driven sports agent who fondly recalls the connection they shared as teenagers. But Beck doesn’t remember that either.
Decades earlier, widow Everleigh Applegate lives a steady, uneventful life with her widowed mother after a tornado ripped through Waco, Texas, and destroyed her new, young married life. When she runs into old high school friend Don Callahan, she begins to yearn for change. Yet no matter how much she longs to love again, she is hindered by a secret she can never share.
Fifty years separate the women but through the power of love and miracle of faith, they each find healing in a beautiful Victorian known affectionately as The Memory House.
“Accomplished Hauck demonstrates genre finesse as she blends inspirational romance with a cinematic style of storytelling, bringing empathic characters to life as they cope with grief in marriage and faithfulness, parenthood and adoption, death and tragedy. Challenging decisions, the blessing of finding love again, and the solace of a beautiful Victorian home all come together in this spellbinding, lovely novel.” —Booklist
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Memory House
Book Author: Rachel Hauck
What do you like about this book:
3.5 stars
" . . . .I've not given up on you . . . It is perfect love that drives out all fear."
Everleigh Applegate doesn't like storms and she doesn't believe in second chances; in fact she really doesn't want one, especially when it comes to love. Content to live out her days with her widowed mother, Everleigh remains stuck in her past while her future continuously beckons, coaxing her away from all she has ever known in Waco, Texas and towards something she never believed possible in Fernandina Beach, Florida; a memory house.
After a couple of costly missteps, New York Police Sargent Beck Holiday finds herself traveling to Florida's northern coast after an embarrassing suspension from the force. Quite unexpectedly, she had received notification of an inheritance from a "Miss Everleigh", whose home Beck frequented during the summers when her family vacationed in the area. Selective memory loss limits her recollection of those years, and of the handsome sports agent Bruno Endicott, who is thrilled to reunite with the grown up version of his childhood sweetheart.
Two women; decades apart, both trying to move forward after years of being stymied in their pasts.
While the constantly changing points of view in this story were a bit distracting at times, the heart of the story comes through quite beautifully in the end; leaving no doubt that its readers will certainly remember the house on Memory Lane.
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