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No one knew she was the one who jumped.
Except him.
After a sudden death, Lyra Faye is drawn back to the quiet, somber town of Decorah, Iowa after nearly two decades of absence. Haunted by remnants of her past, she plans to keep her head low and slip away as soon as the funeral is over. But when she stumbles upon a journal hidden inside a hollowed-out tree, her world unravels. Someone knows her darkest secret.
Cyrus Orson never anticipated her to return. Working as the town's mechanic, he spends his days buried in motor oil, but that's not the only thing he's buried. When the years' worth of letters he thought forgotten resurface, he realizes he has no choice but to retreat back into the shadows. He holds her secret, yet she has unexpectedly uncovered every one of his.
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