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Title: The Peach Keeper

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-11

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 477 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the towns famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

Its the dubious distinction of 30-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madambuilt by Willas great-great-grandfather during Walls of Waters heyday, and once the towns grandest homehas stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadowno easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.

But Willa has lately learned that an old classmatesocialite do-gooder Paxton Osgoodof the very prominent Osgood family has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes.

But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the propertys lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it. For the bonesthose of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water 75 years agoare not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.

Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their familiesand uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.

Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds thatin good times and bad, from one generation to the nextendure forever.

Editorial Reviews:

They say youll never find friends like the ones who knew you when you were young and for the women in Sarah Addison Allens The Peach Keeper, that wisdom is half right. The story traces the relationships between two sets of women Agatha and Georgie and their granddaughters, Paxton and Willa who travel the winding path of lifelong friendship and the detours along the way.

Narrator Karen White lends her gentle tone to three generations of families in the town of Walls of Water, North Carolina, a southern escape thats become more of a trap for Paxton and Willa. As part of a celebration of the towns Womens Society Club, started by Agatha and Georgie when they were teenagers, Paxton takes on the overhaul of the towns most acclaimed property: A breathtaking mansion that Willas relatives were forced to sell when they lost their fortune. But when landscapers discover a dead body buried on the property, the town starts looking at the Club, the property, and its history in a whole new way.

Paxton and Willa didnt grow up as friends, but as adults theyre forced to work together to solve the mysteries their grandmothers left behind.