The Sparrow's Index
Her new life began in the margins of history.
Bookshop & LibraryCozy MysteriesHistoricalSmall-Town LifeStarting Over
Marianne Abbott, 60 and newly widowed, takes a job she's overqualified for, seeking quiet anonymity as the new Head of Local History in the small Shenandoah Valley town of Harmony Creek, Virginia. Her new life is meant to be an orderly epilogue after decades spent in the shadow of her brilliant, demanding husband.
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But the archives she inherits hold a secret. Her predecessor's cryptic last notes point to a collection of miscatalogued 19th-century journals, the work of a mysterious herbalist named Eliza Sparrow. As Marianne deciphers the coded entries, she uncovers a story that contradicts everything Harmony Creek believes about itself, threatening the legacy of the town's revered founder and his powerful descendants.
Forced from the quiet stacks into the center of a battle over the town's very identity, Marianne must decide whether to re-shelve the truth or find her own voice and rewrite history.
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All chapters5
- 1The Chickadee Sings Loudest5 min
- 2The Boring Old Books5 min
- 3E.S. Apothecary6 min
- 4Sometime Isn't a Date5 min
- 5Long Before Westwood6 min
