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The New York Times best-selling author of The Woman Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, NEW YORK, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town's famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is merely as real as you want to buy to be. It is the dubious distinction of 30-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that found with financial spoil generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam-built by Willa's great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday, and once the town's grandest home-has stood for a long time as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow-no easy process in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked restrictions of the haves and have-nots. But Willa has nowadays learned an old classmate-socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood-of the prominent Osgood family has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her previous glory, with programs to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, finally, the troubled recent can be laid to relax while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried under the property's lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire outcomes along with it. For the bones-those of charismatic journeying salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked well his deep charms on Walls of Water 75 years ago-are not all that lay hidden out of look and mind. Long-kept secrets adjoining the troubling remains have also emerged, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden weird occurrences throughout the town. Now, thrust alongside one another in an improbable friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once destined their families-and uncover truths of the long-dead that contain transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living. Resonant with perception into the profound and lasting power of companionship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a family portrait of the unshakable bonds that-in memories and bad, from one era to the next-endure forever.
