Don't Let Me Go (44 page)
Authors: Catherine Ryan Hyde
“This gritty love story is compelling reading”
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Sun
“Surprisingly wonderful”
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Mirror
“A remarkable story of the magic of love”
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Daily Express
“This novel has a steely core of gritty reality beneath its optimism”
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Amazon.com
“A quick read, told with lean sentences and an edge”
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Los Angeles Times
“A sweet and honest look at the pains and pleasures of love”
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Jane Green
“A work of art…enchanting”
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Electric God
)
The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance
Walter’s Purple Heart
Funerals for Horses
Vida is 19 and has a life-threatening heart condition. Richard is 36 and has just lost his beloved wife in a car accident. When Richard is invited to the hospital to meet the young woman who received his wife's donor heart, Vida takes one look at him and feels she's loved him all her life. Is Vida just a sheltered and confused young woman? Or is there truth behind the theory of cellular memory? Can a heart remember, at least for a time, on its own?
An unusual and surprising love story,
SECOND HAND HEART
is a compelling page-turner that will appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks, and to anyone who has ever been curious about the limits of love and death.
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WHEN I FOUND YOU
is a wrenching, fast-paced story about the risks, sacrifices, and faith necessary to accomplish something larger than yourself—raise a child, save someone’s life, and follow your dreams, even in the face of crushing setbacks and staggering odds.
When Nathan McCann finds, and saves, a newborn baby abandoned in the woods, he asks the baby’s grandmother to someday bring the boy around to meet him. She agrees, but by the time she brings young Nat around, the boy is an angry 15-year-old with a police record and dreams of becoming a professional boxer. And she doesn’t just introduce Nat to his namesake, ‚the man who found him in the woods.‛ She washes her hands of Nat and leaves him with Nathan. Now Nathan must learn how to be both a father and a friend to a troubled kid who doesn’t want his help, doesn’t trust anyone, and doesn’t understand his own heart or the possibilities of his young life.
Surprisingly gritty but ultimately heart-warming,
WHEN I FOUND YOU
will appeal to fans of Alice Sebold and Mitch Albom, and to anyone who has ever raised a child or followed a dream.
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WHEN I FOUND YOU
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Copyright © 2012 by Catherine Ryan Hyde
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.
Edition: June 2012
- Don't Let Me Go
- Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Billy
- Chapter 2: Grace
- Chapter 3: Billy
- Chapter 4: Grace
- Chapter 5: Billy
- Chapter 6: Grace
- Chapter 7: Billy
- Chapter 8: Grace
- Chapter 9: Billy
- Chapter 10: Grace
- Chapter 11: Billy
- Chapter 12: Grace
- Chapter 13: Billy
- Chapter 14: Grace
- Chapter 15: Billy
- Chapter 16: Grace
- Chapter 17: Billy
- Chapter 18: Grace
- Chapter 19: Billy
- Chapter 20: Grace
- Chapter 21: Billy
- Chapter 22: Grace
- Chapter 23: Billy
- Chapter 24: Grace
- Chapter 25: Billy
- Chapter 26: Grace
- Chapter 27: Billy
- Chapter 28: Grace
- Chapter 29: Billy
- Chapter 30: Grace
- Chapter 31: Billy
- Chapter 32: Grace
- Chapter 33: Billy
- Chapter 34: Grace
- About Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Praise for Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Also by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Preview: SECOND HAND HEART
- Preview: WHEN I FOUND YOU
- Copyright