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Fiction · 2011 · PG

The Peach Keeper

by Sarah Addison Allen

Bones under a peach tree. Old secrets. A new friendship made to last.

Willa Jackson of Walls of Water, North Carolina, has lately learned that an old classmate--socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood--of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored her family's Blue Ridge Madam home to its former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. But when a skeleton, found buried beneath the lone peach tree on the property is found, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families.

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Violence

Barely any

Minimal; a decades-old death and its discovery

Language

Barely any

Clean prose

Sexual Content

Barely any

No sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Mild themes of old grief and secrets; warmly resolved

What this book is about

When bones are discovered beneath a peach tree at a newly restored historic estate in small-town North Carolina, two women from rival families—connected by their grandmothers' buried secret—find unexpected friendship and a little magic.

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Mild mystery involving a historical death and old secrets

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