num_pages: 273
description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water North Carolina where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the towns famous waterfalls and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.Its the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madambuilt by Willas great-great-grandfather during Walls of Waters heyday and once the towns grandest homehas stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.But Willa has lately learned that an old classmatesocialite do-gooder Paxton Osgoodof the very prominent Osgood family has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe at last the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton found buried beneath the propertys lone peach tree and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.For the bonesthose of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years agoare not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.Now thrust together in an unlikely friendship united by a full-blooded mystery Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their familiesand uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship love and tradition The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds thatin good times and bad from one generation to the nextendure forever.
language: English
title: The Peach Keeper
publisher: Bantam