Earlene "Piper" Mills, a former Olympic hopeful from
Savannah who injured her back and neck during an equestrian
jumping competition, has given up on life since her
disabling accident. Following the death of her grandmother
Annabelle, an Alzheimer's victim, Piper is left a gold
angel charm containing a Latin inscription, pages of a
diary and a paper clipping of a Negro baby found dead in
the river. The mystery of the three girls contained in the
diary leads Piper to discover a hidden room in the attic
containing a small bed, baby bassinet and a blue baby
blanket. Regret at not really knowing Annabelle, the woman
who raised her since age six following her parents' deaths,
has Piper seeking answers.
Ninety-year-old Lillian Harrington-Ross, one of the girls
in the diary, refuses to see Piper. Lillian has lived with
guilt over not forgiving Annabelle. Posing as a
genealogist, Piper travels to Asphodel Meadows, the horse
farm that is Lillian's home. Renting their cottage, Piper
begins her search for the truth.
As Piper works with Lillian's grandson, his two daughters
and Lillian's blind granddaughter, they try to uncover the
mystery involving Lillian, Annabelle and Josie Montet,
their black friend. Piper not only rediscovers her
grandmother, but she restores her own life and love of
horses. Piper must now uncover the real mystery of the
tragedy that tore the three girls apart.
Karen White has written a remarkable story of the
South during the troubling times between the whites and the
blacks. Her gripping story of family secrets and hidden
legacies is intriguing and suspenseful. The characters are
warm and loving with distinct personalities. The author
keeps you in utter captivity as each detail is woven into
layers of suspense. Your heart will go out to the three
girls caught in the stirring realities of being in the
wrong place at the wrong period of time for a forbidden
love.
The award-winning author of The Memory of Water
delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and
forgiveness.
When Piper Mills was twelve, she
helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her
grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained
untouched.
Now a near fatal riding accident has
shattered Piper’s dreams of Olympic glory. After her
grandfather’s death, she inherits the house and all its
secrets, including a key to a room that doesn’t exist—or
does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing
home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it
are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace—and a
newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant
found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace’s charms
tell the story of three friends during the 1920s— each charm
added during the three months each friend had the necklace
and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always
dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell.
And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.
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