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Автор Кристин Ханна
Award-winning author, Kristin Hannah
creates her most spellbinding and
compelling novel yet. . . a passionate tale of obsession, redemption, and the magic of true love.
WAITING FOR THE MOON
She doesn’t remember who she is or how she came to the mansion on the isolated Maine coast. Lost in a strange world filled with even stranger faces, Selena finds comfort in a man whose eyes reflect her own aloneness.
He is Ian Carrick, a brilliant physician turned recluse, hiding from life in the anonymity of this small sanctuary, haunted by a telepathic gift that has destroyed his desire to heal.
Selena comes to him, the only person he’s ever met who is immune to his psychic powers. A mesmerizing innocent, she turns his life upside down, bringing light into the darkness and laughter into the silence. For her, he begins to believe in life again, to believe in himself. And then a mysterious figure from the past arrives, threatening to destroy their glorious love and the fantasy world they have created together…
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ISBN D-44cl-mTDcl-ci
By Kristin Hannah Published by Fawcett Books:
A HANDFUL OF HEAVEN
THE ENCHANTMENT
ONCE IN EVERY LIFE
IF YOU BELIEVE
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES
WAITING FOR THE MOON
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WAITING
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Kristin Hannah
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FAWCETT GOLD MEDAL . NEW YORK
To the best brother in the world, Kent.
This one’s for you.Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as “unsold or destroyed” and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it.
A Fawcett Gold Medal Book Published by Ballantine Books Copyright Š 1995 by Kristin Hannah
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-90426
ISBN 0-449-14909-9
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: November 1995
10 987654321
To Tom and Lori Adams, friends and hosts extraordinaire, who first told me about the Shakers.
And always, to Benjamin and Tucker.
Prologue
THE COAST OF MAINE, 1882
He was an old, old man, and he thought he’d seen it all. For seventy-one years he had fished these icy waters of the Atlantic, as had his father and his father before him. He’d braved the angry sea as it crashed and howled along his beloved coast, gone out in his small, flat-bottomed dory into the sleeping blue giant when the fog was so thick he couldn’t see his own hands. But he’d never been afraid out here until today.
The woman scared him.
He glanced at her from beneath the snagged brim of his cap, trying to hide his interest. He needn’t have bothered. She seemed to have forgotten his existence.
