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Before the Rain Took You Away
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Publisher: Maria Reed Kissimmee
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For nine years, architect Daniel Rhodes has lived with a question that no amount of logic can answer: what really happened to Anna?On a stormy night at Stonehaven Bridge, the woman he loved disappeared when their car plunged into the river. The authorities found the wreckage but never recovered her body. Daniel was told that survival was impossible, yet the absence of a body left him trapped between grief and uncertainty. He built a successful career restoring damaged historic structures, but the greatest broken structure in his life remained beyond repair.Then, on the ninth anniversary of the accident, Daniel hears something impossible.Inside a small café called The Nook, a young piano student begins playing The Willow's Waltz, a private melody Daniel composed for Anna shortly before the accident. The song was never published or recorded. Only Daniel and Anna were supposed to know it.And behind the piano stands a woman who is unmistakably Anna.But she calls herself Clara Whitfield.She does not recognize Daniel. She does not remember their love, their engagement, or the night at Stonehaven Bridge. She has spent nine years living with another identity, believing Raymond and Abigail Carter are her parents and that her past began with the accident that supposedly saved her life.Daniel refuses to accept the impossible coincidence. With the help of his lawyer friend Felix, he begins investigating Clara's history and discovers troubling gaps in the story surrounding her disappearance. The deeper he digs, the more convinced he becomes that Anna did survive-and that someone deliberately rebuilt her life around a different identity.Yet finding Anna is only the beginning.Daniel learns that memory cannot simply be restored like a damaged building. Every forgotten year has shaped the woman Clara has become, and forcing the past back into her mind could destroy the fragile identity she has built. Raymond Carter insists that he rescued a broken woman and gave her a reason to live. Daniel sees something very different: a stolen history hidden beneath a carefully constructed life.Caught between love, truth, obsession, and the danger of destroying the woman he wants to save, Daniel must decide how far he is willing to go to recover the woman he lost. Meanwhile, Clara must confront the terrifying possibility that the life she remembers may not be the life she was born to live.Before the Rain Took You Away is an emotional mystery-romance about lost memory, forbidden truths, identity, enduring love, and the painful question of whether restoring the past is always the same as saving someone.
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