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Also by Mary Ellen Taylor:

The Sky Beneath Her, July 2026
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The View from Prince Street, July 2025
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At the Corner of King Street, July 2025
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After Paris, May 2025
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The Promise of Tomorrow, June 2024
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When the Rain Ends, May 2023
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The Brighter the Light, July 2022
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The Words We Whisper, July 2021
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Honeysuckle Season, August 2020
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Spring House, July 2019
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Winter Cottage, October 2018
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The View From Prince Street, January 2016
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At the Corner of King Street, May 2015
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Sweet Expectations, November 2013
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The Union Street Bakery, February 2013
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THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT
By: Mary Ellen Taylor

Montlake
July 2022
On Sale: July 1, 2022
Featuring: Ivy Neale
ISBN: 1542032598
EAN: 9781542032599
Kindle: B0998WPHDS
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Romance Contemporary | Women's Fiction Contemporary | Women's Fiction Time Slip

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman’s journey to discover the hidden stories of her family’s seaside resort.

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 closet than just her own. Amid the cottage’s clutter are clues from her grandmother’s past at the enchanting seaside resort her family once owned. One fateful summer in 1950, the arrival of a dazzling singer shook the staff and guests alike--and not everyone made it to fall.

As Ivy contends with broken relationships and a burgeoning romance in the present, the past threatens to sweep her away. But as she uncovers the strength of her grandmother and the women who came before her, she realizes she is like the legendary shipwreck: the sands may shift around her, but she has found her home here by the sea.

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