The Hour Between - Book Two - The Night Shift
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The Hour Between, Book Two: his story. The same year, told from the dark side of the pier.
The Story
At 3:12 in the morning, the emergency department at Santa Brisa General is at its quietest, and Theo Lindqvist hates it. Quiet means waiting, and waiting gives the mind room.
Theo is thirty-three, a night-shift nurse who keeps his locker empty and his grief locked away. His brother Anders was the loud one, the one who loved Jane Austen and argued that Captain Wentworth was the greatest romantic hero ever written. Now all Theo has left is Anders’s copy of Persuasion.
Every morning after his shift, Theo sits on a bench at the end of the pier, and every morning a baker he has never spoken to leaves him bread. Then someone starts answering the notes in the margins of his book.
What You’ll Experience
The other side of the story: the year from Book One, seen through the eyes of the man on the bench.
Life on the night shift: an emergency room at 3 a.m., kind hands, and a supply closet where he counts to sixty.
Brothers and grief: a story about losing someone loud, and learning to speak again.
A slow, hopeful turn: the moment a stranger’s kindness starts to get through.
Reading Experience
Length: 10 chapters, about 9,800 words (48 pages)
Reading time: about 1 hour
Genre: contemporary romance, emotional fiction
Content note: grief, the death of a sibling from an overdose (not shown), and a death in a hospital
Best read after: Book One, Sunrise People (free)
Perfect For Readers Who Love
Quiet, wounded heroes
Hospital and night-shift settings
Love stories told from both sides
Books about books, and the people who leave notes in them
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What You Get
The complete Book Two
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Also available in Spanish: El turno de noche