Diaries in Time

A near-fatal accident upends the life of Emma Chase and restricts her to rest and physical therapy. She trades big-city life for quiet country living on the Maryland Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It isn’t long before she discovers the area, so rich in history, is teeming with family secrets, passions for a cause, and wounds inflicted by betrayal. Emotions that pit sister against sister, husband against wife, and neighbor against neighbor across time. Emma is faced with an array of characters—from the modern-day, handsome farmer who owns what is left of his family’s plantation to the people who lived during the Civil War. Her curiosity leads to old maps, private diaries, and antique portraits. Motivated by a ghostly correspondence, she uncovers complicated family secrets involving love, loyalty, and resentment. Emma learns the choices people make create patterns as intricate as handmade lace, patterns that transcend time and directly affect today, but can patterns lead to murder?