num_pages: 254
description: At forty-five Hannah Smith is at a crossroads. Thats her spin on it. The reality is shes divorced jobless and moving back to her family home in Iowa to keep an eye on her mother whos slipping into dementia. Her return stirs up the same unnerving sense of disconnect Hannah has felt since childhoodalways the odd girl out the loner outshone by her two older sisters. Hannah knew the feelings of hurt would come back. But she never expected fear. Because when her mother looks into her eyes and whispers Youre not my daughter Hannah is beginning to believe its not just the rambling of a confused woman.Its the truth.Now Hannahs following the trail of a family mystery to the dark coast of Big Sur where years ago a lie was bornand buried. As frightened as she is to unearth it Hannah knows this is the last chance she has before her pastand all its terrible secretsare lost forever.
language: English
title: Half Past
publisher: Lake Union Publishing