Just After Midnight by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Just After Midnight

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an uplifting and poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears.

No longer tolerating her husband’s borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents’ California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed her new chapter would involve befriending Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother’s sudden and suspicious death.

While Sarah’s grandmother scrambles to get custody, Faith is charged with spiriting the girl away on a journey that will restore her hope: Sarah implores Faith to take her to Falkner’s Midnight Sun, the prized black mare that her father sold out from under her. Sarah shares an unbreakable bond with Midnight and can’t bear to be apart from her. Throughout the sweltering summer, as they follow Midnight from show to show, Sarah comes to terms with what she witnessed on the terrible night her mother died.

But the journey is far from over. Faith must learn the value of trusting her instincts—and realize that the key to her future, and Sarah’s, is in her hands.

Reviewed by Jeff Sexton on

5 of 5 stars

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Sol Rising. In this tale of despair from new-t0-me author Catherine Ryan Hyde, we follow two women in the midst of starting over after personal tragedies as they hide - and learn to live again in the process. Overall a rich, emotionally draining tale that makes you think, if inwardly, perhaps a bit more than I generally prefer but which others will truly love (and which even I find useful at times). The *only* actual detriment to this book that I could find was that it goes in on horse and horse show terms in as technical (if conversational, among professionals) a manner as Tom Clancy ever went in on the inner workings of various weapons platforms in his own novels. Easy enough to follow along with, but a bit confusing at times and you clearly miss at least some elements if you are not familiar with them. Overall yet another 5* book from Lake Union, and yet another example of why I will trust virtually any book they put out to be worth my time - and yours - to read.

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