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April 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0553382977
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Women's Fiction Contemporary | Fantasy
Nestled on the coast of Scotland, Appleton was once famous
for its apples. Now, though the orchards are long gone,
locals still dream of the town’s glory days, when an Apple
Queen was crowned at the annual fair and good luck seemed
a way of life. And outsiders are still drawn to the
charming village, including three very different American
women. Enchanted by Appleton’s famously ornate, gold-domed
library, divorcée Kathleen Mullaroy has left her
cosmopolitan job to start anew as the town’s head
librarian. Widowed Nell Westray hopes for a quiet life of
gardening in the place where she and her husband spent
their happiest moments. And young Ashley Kaldis has come
to find her roots, and learns that the town’s fortunes
turned when her grandmother was crowned Apple Queen–then
mysteriously disappeared. When a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider
world–and the usual constraints of reality–the village
reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by
legendary beings, secret rooms, and the blossoming of a
rare fruit not seen in decades. Most unexpected is a
handsome stranger who will draw all three women into an
Otherworld in which luck and love will return to Appleton–
if only one of them will believe.
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