Some love stories are written in the margins.
Tucson, 1970s. Lena Singer is a girl raised on borrowed books: a motor-court kid with a mother chasing respectability and dreams that stop at the city limits. Then there's Kiefer, the older boy with a bedroom full of paperbacks, who loves her the only way he's allowed: one borrowed book at a time, one line underlined in pencil.
Her mother has plans for Lena. "Aim high. But not too high." And the boy at the motor court is not the plan.
Years later, in a mountain town called Desperate Pines, a girl named Ava Martin reads alone in a shuttered stone church, the way she has every Friday of her life. The woman who raised her is gone now. And one stormy summer night, a stranger comes to the church door and leaves behind something that sends Ava down the mountain to Tucson, looking for where she came from.
What Ava finds is a love story. One that never ended. One that was hers all along.
The Sunday House begins the Desperate Pines series from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Bromke. If you love clean, heartfelt fiction about mothers and daughters, first love, forgiveness, and the family we go looking for, you'll love this one. Perfect for readers of Lisa Wingate, Sarah Addison Allen, and Susan Meissner.
Every house keeps a secret. Open this one today.
Genre: General Fiction
Tucson, 1970s. Lena Singer is a girl raised on borrowed books: a motor-court kid with a mother chasing respectability and dreams that stop at the city limits. Then there's Kiefer, the older boy with a bedroom full of paperbacks, who loves her the only way he's allowed: one borrowed book at a time, one line underlined in pencil.
Her mother has plans for Lena. "Aim high. But not too high." And the boy at the motor court is not the plan.
Years later, in a mountain town called Desperate Pines, a girl named Ava Martin reads alone in a shuttered stone church, the way she has every Friday of her life. The woman who raised her is gone now. And one stormy summer night, a stranger comes to the church door and leaves behind something that sends Ava down the mountain to Tucson, looking for where she came from.
What Ava finds is a love story. One that never ended. One that was hers all along.
The Sunday House begins the Desperate Pines series from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Bromke. If you love clean, heartfelt fiction about mothers and daughters, first love, forgiveness, and the family we go looking for, you'll love this one. Perfect for readers of Lisa Wingate, Sarah Addison Allen, and Susan Meissner.
Every house keeps a secret. Open this one today.
Genre: General Fiction
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