Showing results by author "Seré Prince Halverson"

Kachemak Winkel never intended to come back to his hometown of Caboose, Alaska, where his family died in a plane crash 20 years earlier. When he finally musters the courage to return and face his painful memories, he's surprised to find a mysterious young woman living in his abandoned house.

Set against the backdrop of Redwood forests and shimmering vineyards, Seré Prince Halverson's compelling debut tells the story of two women, bound by an unspeakable loss, who each claims to be the mother of the same two children. Weaving a rich fictional tapestry abundantly alive with the glorious natural beauty of the novel's setting, Halverson is a captivating guide through the flora and fauna of human emotion: grief and anger, shame and forgiveness, happiness and its shadow complement... the underside of joy.

Ella Beene kann sich glücklich schätzen mit ihrem wunderbaren Ehemann, zwei lebhaften Kindern und Schwiegereltern, die sie wie eine eigene Tochter betrachten. Aber als ihr Mann Joe bei einem Unfall ertrinkt, ist ihr Leben mit einem Schlag auf den Kopf gestellt, und das Glück, das ewig dauern sollte, scheint vorbei zu sein. Als Joes schöne Exfrau, die ihn und die gemeinsamen Kinder drei Jahre zuvor verlassen hatte, plötzlich auf der Beerdigung auftaucht, fürchtet Ella das Schlimmste - zu Recht...

After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the world, unseen, for ten years.