The Brighter theLight: A fascinating dual-timeline tale by Mary Ellen Taylor

#1 New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller

This captivating dual-timeline story, written by the best-selling author of Honeysuckle Season, follows a lady as she explores the untold tales of her family's beachside property.

Once a shipwreck is discovered, long-kept secrets inevitably emerge.

That is the story told at Nags Head, North Carolina, the hometown of Ivy Neale. Ivy knows that going back to Nags Head would mean having to face her best friend and the lover who deceived her years ago when she inherits her family's seaside property when her grandmother passes away.

However, a winter storm reveals the shipwreck that is the subject of local folklore, and Ivy quickly discovers that there are more skeletons in the closet than just her own. Clues from her grandmother's history at the picturesque beach resort her family previously owned may be found among the mess in the house. The entrance of a brilliant vocalist startled both the workers and the visitors one fateful summer in 1950, and not everyone survived to fall.

The past tries to snatch Ivy away as she deals with strained relationships and a developing romance in the here and now. She understands, however, that she is like the fabled shipwreck: the sands may move about her, but she has found her home here by the sea, as she discovers the power of her grandmother and the women who came before her.

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