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long time ago,” Jude said, feeling the tug of both sadness and joy. It was strange how those emotions could coexist at a moment like this. “I bought it for an eighteen-year-old girl who I thought was my future.” She stared down at the pink diamond. It sparkled in the sunlight, danced.

Every time she looked at this ring, she would remember something about her daughter. Sometimes she would cry, but that was okay, because someday, maybe she would smile. Or even laugh.

That was something she had learned the past few weeks. In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

She stood and released the balloons into the sky. The pink dots swirled and bounced on an invisible current of air, as if an impatient girl had grabbed at them and missed. A sound like laughter came through the trees, and Jude experienced a profound sense of peace. She’d been wrong before; her daughter was here, with her, inside of her. She’d always been here, even when Jude was too broken to look for her. But it was time now to say, “Good-bye, baby … I love you.”

For the first time in years, she believed that her daughter could hear her.

Acknowledgments

A special thanks to Amanda DuBois, family lawyer extraordinaire. Your help in maneuvering through the maze of legal issues in this novel was invaluable. Any mistakes are most certainly mine.

Also by Kristin Hannah

Winter Garden

True Colors

Firefly Lane

Magic Hour

Comfort and Joy

The Things We Do for Love

Between Sisters

Distant Shores

Summer Island

Angel Falls

On Mystic Lake

Home Again

Waiting for the Moon

When Lightning Strikes

If You Believe

Once in Every Life

The Enchantment

A Handful of Heaven

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

NIGHT ROAD. Copyright © 2011 by Kristin Hannah. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Hannah, Kristin.

Night road / Kristin Hannah.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-36442-7

1. Stay-at-home mothers—Fiction. 2. Foster mothers—Fiction. 3. Biological children of foster parents—Fiction. 4. Foster children—Fiction. 5. Teenagers—Fiction. 6. Life change events—Fiction. 7. Motherhood—Fiction. 8. Domestic fiction. 9. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.A4763N54 2011

813'.54—dc22

2010041204

First Edition: April 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-6502-6

First St. Martin’s Press eBook Edition: March 2011