Lauren is a wealthy college student who is trying to distance herself from her family's expectations. She takes a part time job from 83 year old Abigale Boyles, transcribing a journal written by Mercy Heyworth during the Salem Witch trials. The book alternates the two voices and opens up Lauren...
The Chinese legend of the red string of fate suggests that two people are connected by an invisible red thread and are destined to be lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. In Susan Meissner's most recent book, A Fall of Marigolds, that red thread is replaced by a stunning copper sca...
This book was set in Fredericksburg, VA, but the story focused on a single house in town, so it felt as if it were set out in the country. The beginning and end of the book are set in the modern day, with a center section consisting of letters from the Civil War. It seemed like it was going to ...
Loved this book and Susan is definitely one of my "new" favorite authors. I loved the tongue in cheek conversation between Present Jane and Wilson regarding Historical Fiction on Lady Jane Gray. "It's still Fiction". I liked the twist on the story that everyone thinks they know about Lady Jane an...
I would rate this 2.5 stars. I picked it because it's about a family taking in their niece as a foster kid. :-) It's all about family secrets and figuring out the past - the high school boy's past tragedy in a fire, and family events in the holocaust. The fire was waaaaay over-explained, way ...
What options does a Christian woman have after she's brutally assaulted by a stranger...and becomes pregnant? That's the heartrending situation Claire Holland faces. Happily married and the mother of two when she is attacked, Claire begins an incredible journey on the painful pathway to trusting ...
Susan Meissner explores what God does in the deep places of the human spirit in this story about an acclaimed mystery writer Luke Foxbourne, who lives a happy life in a century?old manor house in Connecticut. But when his father, Jack, has a stroke, Luke returns to his hometown of Halcyon, Iowa, ...
From the author of A Window to the World. When an old friend asks Tess Longren to accompany her to their childhood home to resolve a situation left unsettled 15 years ago, Tess falsely imagines that by helping her friend find peace, she will find contentment for herself.
signed by her friend's father, Gavin McNeil?
A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell t...
The sheet-covered bodies lay on the school cafeteria floor, where only six months earlier children had eaten sausages and peas at sturdy wooden tables. The fallen were arranged in even rows, each one with a cardboard label affixed to the chest, identifying them by name—if it was known—and where t...
I found the key under the mat and a note. Jane, Sorry there’s nothing to eat. Was going to go grocery shopping. Too many emergencies. I think there’s a can of tomato soup in the pantry. Should be home in time for the track meet tomorrow. But don’t wait for me. I crumpled the note and slipped it...
I was told a while ago that the angioplasty procedure went well and that there had been no complications. The room is dimly lit. Father Laurent is tucked snugly into a half-raised bed, surrounded by humming machinery. He looks tired and pale. “I hope they’re done poking and prodding me for awhile...
A smile broke across her lips and she giggled. She felt a little like Scarlett on the morning after an inebriated Rhett carries her up the stairs in a rage fueled more by hurt than alcohol. And in the morning, Scarlett had been giddy with the thought of Rhett having needed her so. &nb...
And it was easy enough to keep Virginio and me on the fringe of activity in the palace when we were young. Uncle Francesco never came to see us, even though our care had been relegated to him. But the day finally arrived when I came to Nurse with this terrible thing I had heard. It was the day be...