The Night of Many Endings: A Novel

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of Memories in the Drift, comes an emotionally rich, feel-good novel about hope, second chances, and seeing the world through someone elses eyes. Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brothers decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that shell be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. Its her home away from home, but its also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance. Theres Marlene, an elderly loner who believes that, apart from her husband, theres little good left in the world; Jasmine, a troubled teen; Lewis, a homeless man with lost hope and one last wish; and Vlado, the security guard who loves a good book and, from afar, Nora. As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge, this collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. Theyll discover more about each other, and themselves, than they ever knewand Nora will be forced to question her brothers disappearance in ways she never could have imagined. No matter how stranded in life they feel, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didnt think was possible.