From the author of the best-selling Sweeney Sister Series and Sweet
Tea Tuesdays comes a new novel of passion, intrigue, and redemption.
Ellie Pringle has spent endless hours and countless dollars working with
a therapist to remember the lost years of her childhood. She's baffled
and more than a little intrigued when the grandmother she hasn't seen in
34 years dies and leaves her a fortune. The time has come to face her
past in person. Still reeling from a recent breakup of a long-term
relationship, and with nothing to keep her in San Francisco, Ellie packs
her meager belongings and boards a plane for the South Carolina
Lowcountry.
Standing in the entryway of her grandmother's antebellum home on South
Battery Street in Charleston, Ellie faces the first of many ghosts who
will soon haunt her. On her first night in the creepy, creaking mansion,
as she's perusing the titles in a dusty bookcase, she comes across her
deceased mother's leather-bound journal. Her mother's words create more
unanswered questions and send her on a quest to find more journals.
As Hurricane Lorene bears down on the South Carolina coast, Ellie
encounters Juan Hagood, a handsome architect who has the talent to
restore her dilapidated mansion and the charm to mend her broken heart.
But as Ellie reads her mother's diaries, they dislodge a stone in the
wall that safeguards her memories, causing her world to come crumbling
down. Revelations about her childhood lead Ellie on a harrowing journey
of discovery that will hold listeners spellbound until the dramatic
conclusion.
