The peach keeper : a novel

 by Sarah Addison Allen. In the mountain resort town of Walls of Water, North Carolina, the Osgood and Jackson families' lives have always been tangled up in the history of the Blue Ridge Madam, a derelict Victorian home on the outskirts of town. Now, as president of the Women's Society Club, Paxton Osgood hopes to unveil the extensive renovations her family has underwritten at a gala celebrating the club's 75th anniversary. It would be nice if Willa Jackson, granddaughter of one of the club's founders, could be there, too. But Willa is too proud to accept the invitation, having struggled to overcome her teenage reputation as a devil-may-care prankster. Yet when a human skeleton is unearthed at the Madam just days before the party, Paxton and Willa join forces to identify the remains, a project that forges a surprising friendship and launches more than one love affair. In this delectable, read-in-one-sitting treasure, Allen once again demonstrates her astonishing ability to believably blur the lines between the magical and the mundane. --Booklist (Check Catalog)