The Lost Hours by Karen White

This was my book club’s choice for October and while it was entertaining, it definitely wasn’t a great book club choice, in my opinion. In The Lost Hours we meet Piper Mills, an ex-equestrian champion who is nursing her near fatal injuries at her grandparent’s house. Her grandfather has recently died and her grandmother is living in a home and suffering from Alzheimer’s. As she pokes around the home she’s inherited, she discovers a key to a room that doesn’t exist. That leads her to discover a hidden room in the attic and she remembers watching her grandfather bury a box in the backyard when she was 12. When she digs up the box, she finds pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace and a newspaper article from 1939. The scrapbook tells the story of three friends growing up in the 1930’s and each charm on the necklace has its own story. After Piper’s grandmother dies, she struggles to understand her story and she reaches out to the only one of the three friends who is still living. But Piper is afraid to ask questions as herself and instead goes to Asphodel Meadows under her “real” name, which is unknown and gets to know the family. There she finds more answers than she knew she was looking for and finally begins to heal, both in body and in spirit. This is a decent book and worth a few hours of your time.