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Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Secrets of Lost Stones, returns with another haunting and hopeful novel about redemption, the power of memory, and a woman's will to reclaim her life.

My name is Claire. I'm thirty-six years old. It's September. I know what I'm doing and why I am…

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1 author picked Memories in the Drift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love books that give me insights into personal subjectivities and experiences that are outside of my own. This book, with a memorable setting in small-town Alaska, delivers! Its protagonist, Claire, had a pleasant life until a car accident caused a traumatic brain injury that robbed her of short-term memory.

Claire is incredibly brave and perseverant as she tries to rebuild her life. The author has researched this type of injury and, through Claire’s POV, brilliantly immerses readers in what Claire’s daily life feels like. This POV took me into a place I had never imagined or experienced, and provoked…

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