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A Sound Among the Trees |
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A Sound Among the Trees
By Susan Meissner / WaterBrook Press
A house with a turbulent Civil War history becomes home to a new bride and stepmother in Susan Meissner's richly absorbing tale of a line of women stuck living in patterns of regret.For 150 years, Holly Oak, a spacious Southern home, has stood the test of time and wills in historic Fredericksburg with Civil War scars to prove it. Marielle Bishop marries into the family with multi-generational ties to the home, leaving behind her independence and her love of Arizona's deserts to move to Holly Oak to become a wife and stepmother. But it isn't long before Marielle is led to believe that the house she just settled into brings trouble and misfortune to all the women who live there. Local folklore has it that Susannah Page, a Yankee spy who housed Union soldiers, haunts Holly Oak because she's longing for pardon. When Susannah's great-granddaughter Adelaide McClane tells her that the house is "stuck" because of it's tumultuous past, Marielle is determined to get past the rumors and uncover the secrets that are buried within its walls. With Adelaide's richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must carve her new life out carefully as she sorts out the truth and makes peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.
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Chasing Sunsets, Cedar Key Series #1 |
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Chasing Sunsets, Cedar Key Series #1
By Eva Marie Everson / Revell
Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it would. A divorced mother of two, Kim resents her ex-husband for moving on with his life and living it up while she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim's own father suggests a respite in the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key Island. As Kim revisits her childhood memories and loves, she soon discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and mistakes--both past and present--become redeemable in God's hand.
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Dandelion Summer, Blue Sky Hill Series #4 |
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Dandelion Summer, Blue Sky Hill Series #4
By Lisa Wingate / NAL
All of her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed in the wind. Now, at sixteen, she must move to the low-rent side of Blue Sky Hill with her indifferent mother. Half Italian and half African-American, Epie doesn't fit in. Even worse, she must work where she's not wanted: in an upscale home on The Hill.J. Norman Alvord's daughter has hired a teenager to stay with him the in afternoons. Widowed and suffering from heart trouble, Norman wants to be left alone. But in Epie's presence, Norman discovers a mystery--memories of another life and a woman who saved him. As summer comes to Blue Sky, two residents from different worlds and different generations will find that with unexpected friendship comes the key to unlocking family secrets hidden for a lifetime...
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