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Zusatztext Praise for New York Times bestselling author Karen White “There is a rhythm to the writing of Karen White. It has a pace! a beat! a cadence that is all its own.”—The Huffington Post “The ultimate voice of women’s fiction.”—*Fresh Fiction “White’s dizzying carousel of a plot keeps those pages turning! so much so that the book can [be]—and should be—finished in one afternoon! interrupted only by a glass of sweet iced tea.”—Oprah.com “This is storytelling of the highest order: the kind of book that leaves you both deeply satisfied and aching for more.”—Beatriz Williams! New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Little Thing “Readers will find White’s prose an uplifting experience as she is a truly gifted storyteller.”— Las Vegas Review-Journal Informationen zum Autor Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Night the Lights Went Out , Flight Patterns , The Sound of Glass , A Long Time Gone , and The Time Between . She is the coauthor of The Forgotton Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia. Klappentext Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the "ultimate voice of women's fiction."* Now, you can revisit the beginning of her signature style in two of her earliest novels-completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. In the Shadow of the Moon When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura's face. Soon afterwards, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival… Whispers of Goodbye Alone and with nothing left to fear, Catherine deClaire Reed answers her sister's desperate plea and travels to the cold comfort of her home in Reconstruction Louisiana. But Elizabeth is nowhere to be found. No one-including her husband-has seen her for days. Now, Catherine must search for her sister in a place where secrets wait behind every closed door...Chapter One When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. -William Shakespeare Our daughter, Annie, was born exactly two weeks after moving into the house. Although my strange attraction to our new home never faded and questions remained unanswered, I pushed them aside and threw myself into my new role as mother. An engaging and guileless little girl, Annie had inherited equal parts from each parent. She had bright green eyes and an odd crescent-shaped birthmark on the inside of her forearm from her mother, and fair hair and perfectly shaped ears from her father. But her little personality was all her own. She was everything I could have wanted in a child. Annie was a gentle baby, which made it easy for us to resume our adult lives when she was still quite young. She went everywhere with us, her fair head poking up over the carrier strapped to one of our backs. We enjoyed being together, our little family. Annie was only twenty-three months old when we took her to see her first comet atop Moon Mountain. Sky watching was a hobby of mine, introduced to me as a child by my Cherokee grandmother, and I was eager to share it with my daughter. Genetti's Comet would be sharing the sky with a total lunar eclipse-a rare enough event to warrant mention of it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Moon Mountain wasn't really a mountain, but rathe...
