SAND CHRONICLES 02 PA – HINAKO ASHIHARA

Can the sands of time heal all wounds? Twelve-year-old Ann and her divorced mother move from big city Tokyo to her mother s rural hometown. As the years pass, Ann learns to trust and depend on her new friends–Daigo and aristocratic siblings Fuji and Shika. But when Ann moves back to Tokyo to be with her father, will she be able to maintain a long-distance relationship with Daigo? Just when Ann has adjusted to life in the countryside–and even has a boyfriend!–her father invites her to move back to Tokyo. Now she must choose between a father she hardly knows and a young man she is just beginning to know. But she soon discovers they aren t the only ones vying for her affections!