English missionary school teacher leaves India after twenty years residence.
A Light on the Veranda
โ Scribed by Ciji Ware
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc.
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 353 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1402275897
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โฆ Synopsis
PRAISE FOR A COTTAGE BY THE SEA:
"An intriguing, enticing, complex, and romantic novel that will keep readers up long into the night." โRundpinne
A secret may hold for a hundred years ... and then it's time for the past to take revenge
Daphne Duvallon vowed never to return to the South years ago when she left her philandering fiance at the altar. Now family has called her back to Natchez, Mississippi, a city as mysterious and compelling as the ghostly voices that haunt her dreams.
From a time when the oldest settlement on the Mississippi was in its heyday and vast fortunes were made and lost, Daphne begins to uncover the secrets of an ancestor whose fate is somehow linked with her own. In a compelling and mesmerizing tale, now Daphne must right the wrongs of the past, or follow the same path into tragedy...
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
"A richly rewarding read brimming with local color, humor, sexual tension, environmental issues, and even a...
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