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Also by Aimie K. Runyan:

The Wandering Season, April 2025
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The Liberty Scarf, November 2024
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Mademoiselle Eiffel, September 2024
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The Memory of Lavender and Sage, March 2024
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A Bakery in Paris, August 2023
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The Castle Keepers, May 2023
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The School for German Brides, May 2022
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Across the Winding River, August 2020
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Girls on the Line, November 2018
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Promised to the Crown, May 2016
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THE MEMORY OF LAVENDER AND SAGE
By: Aimie K. Runyan

Harper Muse
March 2024
On Sale: March 5, 2024
ISBN: 1400237254
EAN: 9781400237258
Kindle: B0CBH49T1R
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

Perhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices before her.

Lost in grief and hoping to reconnect with her memories and her mother’s past, she uses the money to buy a ramshackle manor house in Sainte-Colombe, a small village in Provence, where her mother had grown up. But she is greeted with more questions than answers. Her welcome, especially by the town’s stodgy mayor, is cold at best, and she finds herself wondering if the entire experiment was a mistake.

Yet she stays, stubbornly sticking it out, slowly learning that her mother’s legacy was more than just a nest egg. Through her mother and the village, Tempèsta learns the value of community and friendship, the importance of self-confidence, and the power of love and trust. What’s more, she sees for herself that there is magic and beauty in the everyday—even something as simple as a sprig of lavender and sage.