The Bookshop on Lilac Island

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Family secrets. Hidden treasures. Healing hearts - past and present.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Florence Withers and her husband inherit a long-forgotten building on Mackinac Island they discover a sealed-off bookshop - and a trove of diaries that date back to the Gilded Age. The journals tell stories too scandalous to believe: a woman committed to an asylum in 1905 her sister stealing both her husband and her child and a lifetime of silence buried under polite society.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Florence begins searching for the descendants of the women in those pages long-buried truths shake the island's history - and stir up secrets of her own. Especially when her estranged mother-in-law unexpectedly arrives dragging emotional baggage Florence thought had been packed away for good.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heartfelt and layered this Real-world Women's Fiction novel blends past and present mystery and emotion in a story of women's strength second chances and the healing power of truth.</strong></p><p></p>