The Women of Great Heron Lake
Book Description:
Two strong women, generations apart, living parallel lives.
When Marla Madison’s husband of twenty-two years dies, she finds
her life has become very small. Her daughter is grown and she’s spent the past
two decades around his friends, his interests, and his home. Feeling lost, she
throws herself into fixing up the one-hundred and fifty-year-old family manor
on the lake. While remodeling, she discovers an old journal in a secret drawer
and is instantly intrigued. The handwritten book describes the life of another
Mrs. Madison from over a century ago, the first woman to live in Marla’s home.
As she reads the journal with the book club women she’s recently befriended,
Marla finds that her life parallels that of the woman who wrote those words so
many years ago, and Marla finds inspiration from her strength.
1875 - Alaina Carlton wasn’t looking to ever marry until her
beloved father introduces her to Nathaniel Madison, one of the most prosperous
men in their town of St. Paul, Minnesota. Even though she loves her
independence and enjoys working on her father’s finances for his factory, she is
intrigued by this man who pursues her. When they marry, she believes she’s found
a man who will treat her as an equal, but soon realizes that isn’t entirely
true. From their mansion on the illustrious Summit Avenue to their manor at Great
Heron Lake where the rich and powerful play, her life is no longer her own. But
fifteen years and two children later when Nathaniel grows ill, she takes her
place where women weren’t invited in order to secure her children’s inheritance
and her future.
An inspiring family saga of two determined woman who found
meaning in their lives by following their passions and not allowing society, or
propriety, to hold them back.
Women's Historical Fiction
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