In Sarah
Addison Allen's sequel to Garden Spells,
First Frost begins ten years after Claire
Waverly's wild half-sister Sydney returned and Claire met her now-husband
Tyler. It is an inspiring
story of the trouble with hanging on too long, and the magic that happens when
you finally let go. Autumn has arrived in the small town of Bascom, North
Carolina, along with a strange old man carrying a beat-up suitcase. He has
stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women
forever. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. Quiet Claire
Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies (made with natural ingredients like lavender and honey). Unfortunately, it's
nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. Sydney,
still trying to leave her past behind, is about to combust with her desire for
another new beginning. And Sydney's fifteen-year-old daughter, Bay, has lost her heart to the boy she knows it belongs to, if
only he could see it, too. First Frost is magical realism
at its best, taking readers back into the lives of the gifted Waverley
women--back to their strange garden and temperamental apple tree, back to their
house with a personality of its own, back to the men who love them
fiercely--proving that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a
story. It's where the real story begins.
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