Jan. 14 ~ Diane Chamberlain (The Last House on the Street) at Pawleys Plantation ($35)
1965 – Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain
type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn’t as committed
to her expected future as her family believes. She’s chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to
register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her
scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices. And when she loses her heart to a
fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill. 2010 – Architect
Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill’s new development,
Shadow Ridge Estates. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and
grow old together. Instead, it’s the place where Kayla’s husband died in an accident―a fact known to a
mysterious woman who warns Kayla against moving in. The woods and lake behind the property are reputed to be
haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals leaving threatening notes. And Kayla’s neighbor Ellie
Hockley is harboring long buried secrets about the dark history of the land where her house was built. Two
women. Two stories. Both on a collision course with the truth—no matter what that truth may bring to light–in
Diane Chamberlain’s riveting, powerful novel about the search for justice.
Jan. 21 ~ Kerri Maher (The Paris Bookseller) at Kimbel’s, Wachesaw ($35)
Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most
important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White
Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris
in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare
and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost
Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It’s where some of the most important literary
friendships of the twentieth century are forged—none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and
Sylvia herself. When Joyce’s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it
under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company. But the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous
and influential book of the century comes with steep costs. The future of her beloved store itself is threatened
when Ulysses’ success brings other publishers to woo Joyce away. Her most cherished relationships are put to the
test as Paris is plunged deeper into the Depression and many expatriate friends return to America. As she faces
painful personal and financial crises, Sylvia—a woman who has made it her mission to honor the life-changing
impact of books—must decide what Shakespeare and Company truly means to her.
Jan. 28 ~ Fiona Davis (The Magnolia Palace) at Pawleys Plantation ($62 incl. book)
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel
about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions.
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life
has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most
sought-after artists’ models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza
Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work
has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an
employment opportunity at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at
the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the
daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined
with that of the family—pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that
runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has
her own chance to make her career—and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home—
within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City’s most impressive
museums. But when she—along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua—is dismissed from
the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the
museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica’s financial woes, but
could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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