Part of Lowcountry Tales, book 2
First published 2001
Caroline Wimbley Levine had promised herself she would never return to South Carolina. But her brother calls, asking her to check on their mother, and Caroline finds herself back at Tall Pines Plantation. Miss Lavinia remains as stubborn and eccentric as ever, refusing to listen to her children's concerns about her well-being. The plantation still holds the same mix of family scandals, buried secrets, and old betrayals that drove Caroline away years before. Yet something has shifted in her absence. The distance between mother and daughter feels different now, and Caroline begins to see her childhood home through new eyes. As she navigates the familiar web of family drama, Caroline must confront what it truly means to come home and whether she can bridge the gap that has separated her from her mother for so long.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, southern-gothic, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: coming-of-age, found-family
Setting: South Carolina, Tall Pines Plantation
Period: 21st-century
449 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Jove