Mary Ellen Taylor
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Daisy McCrae lost her job, broke up with her boyfriend, and has had to move into the attic above her family's store, the Union Street Bakery. An elderly customer passes away and bequeaths Daisy a journal dating back to the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family (and her own heritage) than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, she is compelled to look further into the past of the...
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Running the family bakery and living in its attic might not be Daisy's dream life, but she's beginning to understand what being content feels like. When she gets some unexpected news, Daisy's calm existence turns into chaos and now she's struggling to keep it together. But when a box of recipes and mementos is found hidden in the bakery, Daisy suddenly has something to cling to: a mystery that echoes her own troubles and gives her the opportunity...
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"The author of The Union Street Bakery and At the Corner of King Street returns to Alexandria, Virginia, with a heartfelt tale of reconnection. Rae McDonald was fifteen when a car accident took her sister's life and threw her own into reckless turmoil. When she got pregnant a year later, she found a loving couple to adopt the child. Since then, she's buried her grief and guilt under a heart of stone. Lisa Smyth survived the fateful crash, but never...
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"When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family’s beachfront cottage upon her grandmother’s death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend—and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the...
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Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore...