Angel Falls (39 page)
Authors: Kristin Hannah
“You know how jealous Julia is of me. She especially wouldn’t want to talk to me now.”
“You think everyone is jealous of you.”
“I do not.”
Peanut gave her one of those who-do-you-think-you’re-fooling? looks that were the cornerstone of friendship. “Come on, Ellie. Your baby sister looked like she was hurting. Are you going to pretend you can’t talk to her because twenty years ago you were homecoming queen and she belonged to the math club?”
In truth, Ellie had seen it, too, the haunted, hunted look in Julia’s eyes, and she’d wanted to reach out and help her younger sister. Julia had always felt things too keenly; it was what made her a great psychiatrist. “She wouldn’t listen to me, Peanut. You know that. She considers me only slightly smarter than a pet rock,” Ellie said, sighing. “Maybe—”
The sound of footsteps stopped her.
K
RISTIN
H
ANNAH
is the bestselling author of
On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Between Sisters
, and
The Things We Do for Love
. She lives with her husband and son in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her online at
www.kristinhannah.com
.
Angel Falls
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2005 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Kristin Hannah
Reading group guide copyright © 2005 by Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from
The Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah © 2005 by Kristin Hannah
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2000.
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This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming hardcover edition of
The Magic Hour
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