Magic Hour-by Kristin Hannah

When a child psychiatrist, Julia Cates, fails to see the signs of suicide and intent to kill in a former client..she pays dearly for the outcome. Blamed for a Columbine type killing by a client, Julia's reputation lays on the line. After a year of suffering and holding down what little practice she has, she gets a call from her estranged sister in their former hometown in the state of Washington to fly home and help her. The sister, a former Homecoming queen, and dominating older sibling from childhood has now advanced her career to the town's sheriff. She has a task of finding where a homeless tiny orphan came from when discovered up in a tree in their little community. Feared she was left for dead and raised by wolves, the sisters combine their efforts of psychiatry and law enforcement contacts to dealve into this complexing,heart wrenching truth deep down in the girl's past.
Julia, rises to the challenge and begins a year of drawing an almost impossible 6 yr. old whose world had once belonged to the wild forest and outdoor life of the town's outer limits. The story includes the help of the sheriff's dept. with bouts of interference from the media torn community. The local hospital has an attractive, single, doctor who is introduced at the right time to help the course of this little girl's future. A romance is started between the 2 doctors with the outcome one would expect yet...there is a twist. It shows the passion between a small child and a single doctor with a heart of a truly genuine human being. The are bound for life it seems. The story takes you to the edge of a cliff hanger and then plunges you right to your soul. What Julia has to endure and give up plus knowing what the little one has learned from her new Dr. to help guide her on to her new found life can just about clench it for one. But read on...I guarantee you will be given one of those endings that you just had to sit up all night to finish this story!

Submitted by:
Amy Tullis
Puskarich Public Library