NAL
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
Featuring: Cal Heyward; Merritt Heyward
ISBN: 0451470893 EAN: 9780451470898 Kindle: B00OQSF6EW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.