The Lost Hours
May 5, 2009
The Lost Hours
Author: Karen White
Publisher: Penguin Groups
Publication Date: Spring, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-451-22649-5
Piper was a go-getter. She didn't have time to learn about things that didn't interest her. She was all about "the win". A blisteringly good equestrian who was on her way to the Olympics, she was completely self-centered in her goal and had no interest in her boring family that appeared to have never had a life of any interest. Her Grandma was a withdrawn, quiet woman and her grandfather only noticed her when she won another trophy.
She felt she was invincible after surviving a car crash that killed her parents when she was 6 but left her unscathed. Her equestrian feats were well known and everyone assumed the Olympics were to be her future.
Then the unthinkable happened. She pushed her horse too hard and it not only didn't make the jump, it landed on her full weight and broke a lot of Piper up into little pieces. She lost her horse, her health and her livelihood.
Six years later of being sorry for herself, rambling around her grandparents house and never going near a horse since the accident, Piper's grandmother dies. While looking through her belongings she finds out that not only did her grandmother have a very interesting life, she left a big secret behind that tore apart several lives. Piper becomes obsessed with finding out this secret as the guilt digs at her that she never thought of her grandmother as a real person who might have had a life.
This is the story of Piper and the wonderful, yet troubled people she meets and invites into her life as she works to discover what drove her grandmother to withdraw from life and become a shell of a person.
