Kimberly Brock The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare Paperback

Now available in trade paperjust in time for womens history monthSIBA bestseller The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of womens history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanors fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteenyearold Alice had been next in line to receive it, but her mothers tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. In the waning days of World War II, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright the deed to Evertell, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteenyearold daughter, Penn, in tow. But when Penns curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanors book is finally found, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true... | Kimberly Brock The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare Paperback