Secrets Beneath the Summer Garden: A Dual-Timeline Novel of Hidden Mothers, Wartime Secrets, and Second Chances
Zachary Sims
Aug 2026 · Zachary Sims
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After loss, divorce, and the death of her father, photographer Nora Bennett returns to Virginia hoping that familiar ground might help her rebuild a life she no longer recognizes. A job photographing historic Hawthorne Grove brings her closer to estate manager Owen Mercer, his family, and a long-neglected greenhouse whose history reaches far deeper into Nora’s own past than she could imagine. An old letter and Evelyn’s journal eventually reveal a devastating truth: the story Nora was told about her birth was never the whole story, and the woman she knows as Vivian is connected to her in the most intimate way possible. Decades earlier, during the turmoil of World War II, fierce young Clara Dawson struggles against poverty, violence, judgment, and an impossible pregnancy while an unlikely friendship with Evelyn changes the futures of several generations. As buried stories emerge, Nora begins to understand how sacrifice, adoption, motherhood, and survival shaped the family she inherited. Moving between past and present, the novel brings two women’s stories together in a journey toward forgiveness, belonging, new love, and a home reclaimed from secrets.
After loss, divorce, and the death of her father, photographer Nora Bennett returns to Virginia hoping that familiar ground might help her rebuild a life she no longer recognizes. A job photographing historic Hawthorne Grove brings her closer to estate manager Owen Mercer, his family, and a long-...
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