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    Home Before Dark
    Home Before Dark
    Home Before Dark
    Audiobook11 hours

    Home Before Dark

    Written by Susan Wiggs

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    About this audiobook

    She left her child behind, but couldn't let her go

    As an irresponsible young mother, Jessie Ryder knew she'd never be able to give her newborn the stable family that her older sister could, and the security her child deserved. So Luz and her husband adopted little Lila and told her Jessie was but a distant aunt.

    Sixteen years later, having traveled the world with the winds of remorse at her back, Jessie is suspending her photojournalism career to return home—even if it means throwing her sister's world into turmoil.

    Where life once seemed filled with boundless opportunity, Jessie is now on a journey to redeem her careless past, bringing with her a terrible burden. Jessie's arrival is destined to expose the secrets and lies that barely held her daughter's adoptive family together to begin with, yet the truth can do so much more than just hurt. It can bring you home to a new kind of honesty, shedding its light into the deepest corners of the heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543611595
    Home Before Dark
    Author

    Susan Wiggs

    Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Oysterville Sewing Circle, and Family Tree. Her award-winning books have been translated into two dozen languages. She lives with her husband on an island in Washington State’s Puget Sound.

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    • 4/5
      When photographer Jessie Ryder is told she is losing her sight, she takes her doctors advice and goes to see the one thing she wants to see -- her daughter, given up at birth to be adopted by her sister. This warm story of love and pain and reaching out to one another was touching and worth the time to read.
    • 4/5
      Susan Wiggs has written another great story about family, relationships and the connection between sisters. Home Before Dark was well written. The characters were complex and interesting. The only reason I’m not giving this book a little higher rating, is I just didn’t feel the chemistry between Jesse and Dusty. They just got together to fast. I thought Dusty was a weak character. He seemed to pop in and out of the plot. We only learned about his past through the magazine article.
    • 4/5
      Women's fiction with a romance. The heroine is going blind, & wants to see the daughter she had her sister adopt at birth, & is forced to reevaluate her life. and finds love, so it's not all YEC.