The gypsy woman said the dress was special, that it had the power to change the future of the one who wore it. All Anna knew was that she had to have it, but that sparkling, dazzling little black dress would ultimately change Anna's life, and the lives of all those she loved, forever. Was it worth the price?
In Susan McBride's latest novel, LITTLE BLACK DRESS, family secrets, romance, and elements of magic mix together to form a fascinating novel that follows two generations of strong women and a little dress that held them entranced.
Evie Ashton knew that someday her secrets would be discovered, it was inevitable. But she was determined that she would be the one to reveal the truth that had long haunted her family. So, although her health was fragile, she climbed the stairs to the attic to find the little black dress that started all the trouble all those years ago.
Living in St. Louis, Antonia Ashton is a successful business woman with her own thriving wedding planning business and a relationship that seems to be going so-so. But when her mother, Evie, suffers a stroke, Toni is forced to return to her home of Blue Hills, Missouri, a place she thought she had escaped. She arrives to find her mother in a medicated coma, and a houseful of secrets just begging to be unraveled.
After being told that Evie was discovered in the attic wearing an old black dress, Toni is determined to find out why that dress was so important to her mother that she would risk her health going after it. With the help of Bridget, her mother's long-time friend and housekeeper, Toni stumbles across more mysteries than she ever dreamed existed in her childhood home. Antonia vows to uncover these secrets and understand her mother's life, before it is too late, including the story of her aunt Anna who disappeared fifty years ago on the night before her wedding. But would finding the truth be worth the grief that was sure to accompany it?
LITTLE BLACK DRESS is absolutely enchanting. Elements of magic and mystery float lightly in an ongoing story of the age-old mother/daughter struggle to understand each other. McBride tells the story in both the voice of Evie and Toni, and it is a tale that will linger with readers long after the last page is turned. I highly recommend this book to kick off your late summer/fall reading.
Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn
apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a
glimpse of an unavoidable future.
Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career
and a committed relationship, but she realizes her life has
gone off track. Forced to return home to Blue Hills when her
mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, Toni finds the old
Victorian where she grew up as crammed full of secrets as it
is with clutter. Now she must put her motherβs house in
orderβand uncover long-buried truths about Evie and her
aunt, Anna, who vanished fifty years earlier on the eve of
her wedding. By shedding light on the past, Toni illuminates
her own mistakes and learns the most unexpected things about
love, magic, and a little black dress with the power to
break hearts . . . and mend them.
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