Hi, peach! Save the Date for May's GPBC: May 23rd
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Stephanie L. Fontenot
May 2, 2012, 9:41:35 AM5/2/12
to Glover Park Book Club, Abbie Dorton, Adrienne Kean, Alexandra Corby, Alexandra Utsey, Alison Cubin, Allison Prescott, Ally Browning, Annie Eser, Brittney Ann Cardillo, Carissa Maguire, Christina Blair Carlson, Claire Burghoff, Elizabeth Lauten, Ellen Shatzen, Ellie Hansen, Emily Canan, Emily Herzog, Gillian Frey, Heather Darazs, Hilary Halpern, Ivy Williams, Jacqui Mooney, Jessica James Golden, Jessica Piland, Jill Shatzen, Julia Henson, Julianne Mica, Katherine Cherry, Kristen Murdock, Laine Evans, Lauren Berg, Lauren E Spivey, Lauren Russell, Lauren Schab, Leighton Shaw, Lindsay 'Bronwen' Tingley, Maura McGroarty, Megan N. Hermann, Meredith Griffanti, Molly McGlynn, Paige Hallen, Paige Hensgens, Sara E. Babiarz, Sarah Elizabeth Hauge, Sarah Grady, Sarah Nichols, Sarah Sobecki, Sarah Swinehart, Sarah Waites Elkins, Shadan Sayed, Sophie Pyle, Sophie Trainor, Stacy Fuller, Stephanie Fontenot, Tristin Monroe
Hi lovelies!
Please save the date for this month's GPBC: Wednesday, May 23rd! Tentative hosts with the mosts: Miss Lauren Russell & (for now!) Miss Jacqui Mooney.
Our fabulous read of the month: "The Peach Keeper"
A little sneak peak...
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.
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.
Counting down the days, sundrops!
The Glover Park Book Club
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