Diamond
Nora Hayes thought she knew the story of her life.
At twenty-seven, she has learned to live with unanswered questions, failed relationships, and the painful feeling that everyone she loves eventually leaves. But when a mysterious man named Eli Carter walks into the restoration shop where she works, carrying an old voice recorder filled with recordings from her childhood, Nora discovers that her past is not what she remembers.
Eli has known Nora since she was seven. For twenty years, he has kept recordings, photographs, letters, and memories that were never meant to reach her until the right time. But why did he keep them? And why did Nora's childhood friend Claire disappear without a trace?
As Nora begins uncovering the truth, she discovers secrets her family buried for decades—secrets involving her missing father, her mother, her uncle Daniel, Claire's disappearance, and Eli himself.
But the deeper Nora goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Some secrets were hidden to protect her.
Others were hidden to protect the people who betrayed her.
And one secret could change everything she believes about the man standing beside her.
As Nora and Eli grow closer, they must decide whether love can survive the truth—or whether the past will destroy the future they've only just begun to build.
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