Overview
The New York Times bestselling author of A Long Time Gone now explores a Southern family’s buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret.
It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward’s husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news—Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal’s reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.
Charting the course of an uncertain life—and feeling guilt from her husband’s tragic death—Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal’s unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt’s, will change and define her as she navigates her new life—a new life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother.
Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Low Country.
Review
I think this is the best Karen White book I have read. She has always been a favorite, but she has out done herself with this novel. The characters are so enjoyable and the setting is so rich it just envelopes you the more you read.
Merritt inherits her deceased husband’s family home with all its history and mystery. She is a woman damaged and looking for healing. She finds more than she bargained for when her step mother and little brother show up to stay.
This novel is very well researched and I enjoyed learning about nutshell studies, an added plus to this story.
Each character holds a different secret the slowly unfolds and captivates the reader with every turn of the page.
Karen White knows how to tell a story that will stay with you long after it is finished!
I received the book from Netgalley for an honest review.
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