Memories in the Drift

Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Secrets of Lost Stones, returns with another haunting and hopeful novel about redemption, the power of memory, and a womans will to reclaim her life. My name is Claire. Im thirty-six years old. Its September. I know what Im doing and why I am herefor now. Ten years ago, Claire Hines lost her unborn childand her short-term memoryfollowing a heartrending tragedy. With notebooks, calendars, to-do lists, fractured pieces of the past, and her fathers support, Claire makes it through each day, hour by hour, with relative confidence. She also has a close-knit community of friends in the remote Alaskan town where she teaches guitar to the local children. Its there, in the reminders. As determined as Claire is to regain all thats disappeared, shed prefer to live without some memories of her before lifeespecially those of her mother, Alice, who abandoned her, and Tate, the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart. But when Alice and Tate return from the past, therell be so much more for Claire to relive. And to discover for the very first time. Through healing, forgiveness, and second chances, Claire may realize that whats most important might not be re-creating the person she was, but embracing the possibilities of being the person she is.