The Charmed Friends of Trove Isle
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Publisher Description
In a grown-up twist on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains pens a powerful, uplifting story of female friendship and resilience in a small Southern town, as former childhood friends overcome grief and begin to take new chances in their lives…with the help of a long-lost gift they were meant to share. Perfect for readers ofKaren Hawkins’ The Book Charmer or Heather Webber’s Midnight at the Blackbird Café.
"Magic shines in the pages of this uplifting story about love and forgiveness." –Heather Webber, USA Today Bestselling Author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
Ten years after she left her hometown of Trove Isle, NC, Melody Palmer is back to receive an unexpected inheritance—her great aunt’s thrift store, Hidden Treasures. There, in a glass case beneath the register, Melody spies the long-lost charm bracelet she shared with her high school friends, Liz and Bri, and her younger sister, Alyssa. After a devastating prom night accident, it disappeared, and the girls’ friendship evaporated with it. Slipping the bracelet on her arm for safekeeping, Melody soon finds herself crossing paths with her former friends once more.
While Melody fled, Liz has stayed in Trove Isle, helping with her parents’ business instead of pursuing her photography goals. Guilt still weighs on her after that fateful night when they lost Alyssa. For Bri, the consequences were even more stark. After spiraling into self-destruction, Bri served four years in a women’s state prison and is about to be released—but can Trove Isle ever feel like home again?
Yet despite everything that’s changed, the promise that the bracelet once held—of adventures, achievements, love, and lifelong friendship—hasn’t quite faded. And together, they might yet find a way to reconcile their pasts and futures, one charm at a time . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rains (the Somerset Lake series) draws inspiration from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in this sweet contemporary about second chances. Melody Palmer is shocked when she gets a phone call letting her know that her great-aunt Jo has died and left Melody her Trove Isle, N.C., thrift store, Hidden Treasures. Melody has not returned to her charming coastal hometown since leaving nine years ago, after a car accident killed her younger sister, Alyssa, and fractured Melody's relationship with her besties Liz Dawson and Bri Johnson, with whom she once shared a treasured charm bracelet that they and Alyssa would pass among them. Now Melody travels from her home in Charlotte to Trove Isle—where she rediscovers the charm bracelet, which had been lost in the accident, within the thrift store's jumbled inventory. As Melody reestablishes her broken relationship with Liz, who now works at her own mom's bakery, and Bri, who's serving time on a drug charge, sparks fly between her and her childhood neighbor, Christopher West. Melody must choose whether to sell the thrift store and return to her lonely life in Charlotte or take a chance on happiness in Trove Isle. The women's friendship with each other is just as important to the plot as the charming romance. Fans of quaint and affecting small-town stories will be in heaven.
