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After learning of her family’s ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic for signs and discovers a windowpane into the world of her ancestors: the memoir of her great-grandfather’s spinster sister,
Gerda Bergstrom. Gerda’s memoir chronicles the founding of Elm Creek Manor and the tumultuous years when Hans, Anneke, and Gerda Bergstrom sheltered fugitive slaves within its surfaces, using quilts as a sign of sanctuary. But little does the staunchly abolitionist Gerda know a traitor was among them, placing the Bergstroms in grave risk and resulting in family discord, betrayal, and a key held for decades.
With the assistance of the Elm Creek Quilters and signs hidden within old-fashioned quilts learned in the manor’s attic, Sylvia stitches together the bits of her former and decodes the real dynamics of the Bergstrom legacy.
