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Also by Sarah Addison Allen:

Paper Ghosts, September 2026
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Other Birds, September 2023
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Other Birds, September 2022
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First Frost, November 2018
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Lost Lake, January 2014
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The Peach Keeper, April 2011
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The Girl Who Chased The Moon, March 2011
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The Girl Who Chased The Moon, March 2010
Hardcover
The Sugar Queen, April 2009
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The Sugar Queen, June 2008
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Garden Spells, May 2008
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Garden Spells, May 2008
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Garden Spells, September 2007
Hardcover

THE PEACH KEEPER
By: Sarah Addison Allen

Bantam
April 2011
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Featuring: Willa Jackson
288 pages
ISBN: 0553807226
EAN: 9780553807226
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.

But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.

For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.

Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.

Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.