Official Blurb
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon
welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the
secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the
stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.
It’s the
dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old
Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue
Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s
heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely
monument to misfortune and scandal.
And Willa herself has long strived to build
a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped
by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.
But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder
Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge
Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last,
the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises
from its ashes.
But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the
property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with
it. For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin,
who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all
that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the
troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of
sudden strange occurrences throughout the town. Now, thrust together in
an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must
confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their
families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and
defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.
Resonant
with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition,
The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times
and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.
MY REVIEW
An enjoyable light read, drew me in to the mystery from the beginning with the delivery mishaps of invitations to the opening of the 'Blue Ridge Madam'. The characters were interesting and likeable. A little romance and developing friendships surrounded with mystery. Relationships were predictable but enjoyable to follow none the less.
