White Karen Bücher

One of PureWow's "Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018" New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this contemporary women's fiction novel, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, about lifelong friends who share a devastating secret. On the banks of the North Santee River stands a moss-draped oak that was once entrusted with the dreams of three young girls. Into the tree's trunk, they placed their greatest hopes, written on ribbons, for safekeeping—including the most important one: Friends forever, come what may. But life can waylay the best of intentions.... Nine years ago, a humiliated Larkin Lanier fled Georgetown, South Carolina, knowing she could never go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she realizes she has no choice but to return to the place she both loves and dreads—and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered badly injured and unconscious in the burned-out wreckage of her ancestral plantation home. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly fifty years—whispers of love, sacrifice, and betrayal—that lead back to three girls on the brink of womanhood who found their friendship tested in the most heartbreaking ways.

Despite her stroke of luck, Melanie cant deny that spiritsboth malevolent and benignhave started to show themselves to her again. One is shrouded from sight, but appears whenever Jayne is near. Another arrives when an old cistern is discovered in Melanies backyard on Tradd Street.

The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be.... Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china—especially Limoges—requires her to return to the one place she swore she’d never revisit.... It has been ten years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing—and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people’s remnants. To embrace her own life—mistakes and all—she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep.... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

Piper Mills, była czempionka w zawodach jeździeckich, pogrąża się w apatii po niebezpiecznym wypadku, który zakończył jej karierę. Gdy umiera jej dziadek, otrzymuje po nim klucz do jakiegoś pomieszczenia i szukając w domu drzwi, do których by pasował, odkrywa w kufrze chorej na alzheimera babci sweterek dziecięcy. Znajduje również kartki z albumu, który babcia prowadziła w dzieciństwie wraz z dwiema przyjaciółkami, oraz wycinek z gazety mówiący o znalezieniu zwłok niemowlęcia w rzece Savannah. Gdy jeszcze dostaje odesłany niegdyś przez adresatkę list babci do jednej z przyjaciółek, Lillian, w którym ta prosi ją o przebaczenie czegoś, co niegdyś zrobiła, Piper, zaintrygowana i po raz pierwszy od sześciu lat widząc sens w życiu, postania odnaleźć Lillian, aby dowiedzieć się czegoś więcej o swojej babce oraz jej tajemnicy. Jednak Lillian, już dziewięćdziesięcioletnia właścicielka stadniny, nie chce się z nią spotkać. Piper więc pod pretekstem prowadzenia zleconych badań genealogicznych wynajmuje domek na terenie jej posiadłości, żeby przeprowadzić śledztwo na własną rękę. Na miejscu poznaje parę wnuków starszej pani, Tuckera, wdowca z dwiema córeczkami, którego żona popełniła samobójstwo, oraz niewidomą Helen. Niebawem jej tożsamość zostaje ujawniona, ale w Tuckerze i Helen znajduje przyjaciół, którzy zaczynają pomagać jej w śledztwie. Z czasem zdobywa także sympatię Lillian. Starsza pani broni się przed zwierzeniami, ale w końcu ulega. Prawda, którą ujawnia, jest przerażająca, ma związek z Ku Klux Klanem i walką o równe prawa czarnych na Południu. Dramatyczna historia trzech młodych kobiet pomaga jednak wszystkim rozwiązać własne problemy: Piper lepiej poznaje swoją zmarłą już babkę, i znowu zaczyna jeździć konno, a Tucker przestaje obwiniać się o śmierć żony i oboje zakochują się w sobie.

Melanie, a successful realtor, is an ambitious careerist, inaccessible to men, who has a difficult relationship with her father. She has the ability to see beings from a parallel world, but denies it all the time. She is not interested in old houses that keep stories. But she had no idea that she would inherit one from a client she had only seen once. According to his will, the house on Tradd Street, complete with antiques, a dog and the ghosts of its former owners, now belongs to Melanie. However, there is an unusual condition: in order to inherit the property, a woman must restore it and live there for a year. And two men appear in the heroine's life, competing for her affection. The world is becoming more and more upside down. The tangle of past events unravels, revealing all the secrets of the house: the history of two families, love, hidden treasures, and even more, murder.