Smart and confident, Lauren Serra is impatient to move into her new home. Why wouldn’t she be? The eighteenth-century farmhouse holds over two hundred years of Ring Family history, including clues to the missing Ring ruby pendant. But Lauren wants more from the home than the mystery it promises. She hopes the house will fertilize the child she and her new husband Drew have been storking for the past few years.
Lauren’s connections with the Ring family deepen as they settle into the home. When she is confronted with the tragic Ring family secrets, an untoward event nearly tears her marriage apart. Close companions in sorrow, Lauren and the Rings find strength in one another and the missing threads needed to mend their tattered lives.
There are several storylines here, connected through an old house over the course of 200 years. There is family drama and the trauma women have always experienced threaded with American history. I was amazed that it all came together at the end in a way that made sense! Even the smallest details from the very beginning were there in the final pages. This is more than just "women's" fiction and a very good read.