![]() I have found this distracting in other books but due to the lovely writing style of the author and flow of the stories I didn't mind it. Their stories are told and explained through alternating chapters. She meets and falls in love with a Black man and comes face to face with the realities of the bigotry and hatred during those times.īoth women love deeply and suffer great loss and their lives mysteriously are intertwined. During her summer break she joins a largely Black group that canvases the rural areas encouraging the poor sharecroppers to register to vote. Segregation struggles are rife with danger and violence. Ellie becomes involved in the voting rights movement. Sixty years earlier Ellie Hockley lives with her parents at what was the end of the street at the time. Strange things begin to happen that frighten her. ![]() In the depths of her grieving Kayla decides to go ahead and move into the house as planned. Unfortunately he died in a tragic accident on the building site just before they were to move in with their young child. ![]() ![]() The house is at the end of a street backed by a beautiful wooded area and a pond. In a small southern town in North Carolina (near the east coast of the US) Kayla Carter moves into the dream house that she and her architect husband designed and built together. ![]()
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