Category: General Fiction, Literature
Language: EnglishKeywords: Family Life Friendship Small Town Womens Fiction
Written by Catherine Mann
Read by Shannon McManus, Ann Marie Gideon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
In South Carolina, a woman discovers her auntâs profound secrets in an emotional novel spanning decades about trauma, survival, and the bonds of female friendship by a USA Today bestselling author.
Since Bailey Rae Rigbyâs adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesnât have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems.
Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her auntâs inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach. Everything goes awry when a distraught young mother arrives in town clutching a copy of that same cookbook. Embedded inside is a code that promises a safe place in Bent Oak for desperate women on the run. For Bailey Rae it opens up a world of questions. Who really was the beloved aunt sheâs known most of her life?
Winnie Ballardâs story reaches back fifty yearsâone of a Southern debutanteâs harrowing marriage, of her escape and reinvention, and the galvanizing friendship of three resilient women who overcame their traumas, created a shelter, and found purpose. But thereâs more to Winnieâs deliverance and long-held secrets than Bailey Rae imagines.
With each revelation, Bailey Rae draws on her auntâs courage to find purpose herself. For now, whatever threats may come, Bailey Rae isnât going anywhere.
In South Carolina, a woman discovers her auntâs profound secrets in an emotional novel spanning decades about trauma, survival, and the bonds of female friendship by a USA Today bestselling author.
Since Bailey Rae Rigbyâs adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesnât have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems.
Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her auntâs inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach. Everything goes awry when a distraught young mother arrives in town clutching a copy of that same cookbook. Embedded inside is a code that promises a safe place in Bent Oak for desperate women on the run. For Bailey Rae it opens up a world of questions. Who really was the beloved aunt sheâs known most of her life?
Winnie Ballardâs story reaches back fifty yearsâone of a Southern debutanteâs harrowing marriage, of her escape and reinvention, and the galvanizing friendship of three resilient women who overcame their traumas, created a shelter, and found purpose. But thereâs more to Winnieâs deliverance and long-held secrets than Bailey Rae imagines.
With each revelation, Bailey Rae draws on her auntâs courage to find purpose herself. For now, whatever threats may come, Bailey Rae isnât going anywhere.