The Edisto Trilogy
Claire
at Edisto
The
Edisto Trilogy Book 1
by
Lin Stepp
Genre:
Christian Contemporary Romance
Standing
in grief and shock at the grave of her young husband, Claire Avery
wonders what she and her young daughters will do now. They live in
the church parsonage they need to vacate. She hasn't worked since her
marriage twelve years ago. Old issues and complications hinder
relationships with her family. Struggling for answers, Claire accepts
her brother-in-law's offer to stay at his beach house at Edisto to
give her a season to heal and think. But even the peace and beauty of
the coastal island bring new problems along with unexpected joys as
Claire seeks to find her way.
Parker
Avery always promised his brother Charles he would look after Claire
if anything happened to him. Charles stood by him three years ago
when his wife Ann died and Parker is determined now to be a help to
Claire and the girls. As time passes, instead of feeling like a hero,
he feels like a heel instead as he realizes he's developing feelings
for his own brother's widow. To make things worse, he watches with
pain and jealousy as Miles Lawrence waltzes into Claire's life. What
can he expect though? It hardly seems right that Claire, even after a
season of mourning, would ever fall in love with her own
brother-in-law.
Return
to Edisto
The
Edisto Trilogy Book 2
Return
to Edisto Island in the rich, Lowcountry story of a young woman's
difficult decision to run from threat and danger, changing the course
of her well-ordered life and, in turn, the life of the young man who
loved and lost her.
It
was a long trip back to Edisto Island, South Carolina, and the beach
house that shaped so much of Mary Helen Avery’s early life. Now her
mind flashed between anger and hurt over the difficult situation
she’d left behind at the job she loved. Was she doing the
right thing to leave? Should she have stayed to fight? She hoped at
the quiet, beloved island she knew so well, she’d find the answers
she needed and peace from all this turmoil.
J.T.’s
heart took a familiar lurch when he saw the car with New Jersey
plates parked at the Avery’s beach house. Even after ten years, the
memory of Mary Helen Avery still tormented him. Finding her on
the porch weeping lit old fires he thought long dead. Was he a fool
to hope for something more between them with all their problems of
the past? Probably so, but if she stayed long enough, he’d find one
more chance to try.
Edisto
Song
The
Edisto Trilogy Book 3
In
EDISTO SONG a young woman, at the pinnacle of success, is forced to
reexamine her dreams as she finds her life as a concert pianist not
what she envisioned and those her life is entwined with far from what
she believed of them.
Sarah
Katherine Avery, becoming internationally known as a young concert
pianist of great promise, finds herself at a difficult moment in her
career-home in New York, getting ready for a concert with the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra but feverish and ill. After pushing
on for weeks through illness, her neighbor and friend encourages her
to talk to her agent about taking a break for healing after this
concert. Worn and disillusioned, Sarah heads over to the concert hall
to talk to Jonah but the shock of what she encounters at that meeting
spirals her life in a new direction.
Andrew
Cavanaugh has traveled to New York from Beaufort to be a support to
his boss's daughter, Sarah Katherine Avery-Suki to him-for her
concert performance. A friend of Suki's since childhood years at
Edisto, and always a supporter of her gift and her music, Andrew is
shocked when Suki collapses on stage. He learns as he sits with her
at the hospital that her life holds unhappiness none of them knew of
but her answers for how to resolve her current problems threaten to
send his well-ordered life right out the window.
Lin
Stepp is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and
Amazon best-selling international author, A native Tennessean,
businesswoman, and former faculty member at Tusculum College, Lin
has twenty-one published books, including her beloved Smoky Mountain
and Mountain Home novels, all set in different Tennessee and North
Carolina locations, a novella in one of Kensington’s Christmas
anthologies, and three novels in her Edisto Trilogy, set on the South
Carolina coast: Claire at Edisto (2019), Return to Edisto
(2020) and Edisto Song (2021). Lin and her husband J.L. also
write regional guidebooks, including a Smoky Mountain hiking guide,
and two state parks guidebooks for Tennessee and South Carolina.
Stepp’s latest novels set around the Smoky Mountains are Downsizing
(2021) centered near Gatlinburg and Happy Valley (2020) set
near Townsend. Lin’s title Claire At Edisto was the 2019
Best Books Award Winner in Fiction: Romance, sponsored by
American Book Fest, her novel Welcome Back a finalist in the
2017 Selah Awards, and Lin and her husband’s guidebook Discovering
Tennessee State Parks a 2019 Best Books Award Finalist in
Nonfiction: Travel Guides with American Book Fest. Lin enjoys
speaking for events, festivals, libraries, and book clubs, reading,
hiking, exploring out of doors, and keeping up with her readers on
Facebook, Twitter, and through her monthly blog and newsletter which
you will find on her website at: www.linstepp.com
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I like the covers. They make me want to go to the beach.
ReplyDeleteDebby ... Thanks for your note about the covers. I'll pass along your compliments to our graphic artist!! ... A fun thing about my Edisto beach trilogy is that Edisto is a real beach you can visit on the South Carolina coast - a small, quiet island halfway between Charleston and Beaufort. You'll find many real places throughout the book you can visit!!
DeleteSuch beautiful covers. I like the sound of this trilogy.
ReplyDeleteMary ... Thank you and I hope you will enjoy this beach trilogy set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Edisto has been our family's favorite vacation spot since the 1980s ... and we're actually heading down to the beach for a week's break this weekend!!
DeleteI like the cover! It sets the tone for the book!
ReplyDeleteJeanna ... The photos the graphic artists used for these three books were photos my husband and I actually took when at Edisto Beach on vacation. ... I love how the artist worked her magic to make these fabulous covers. ... I hope you will enjoy visiting our favorite beach in this book ... and perhaps check out my website to read about my other books, too. There are twenty-one published books now!! Many of my other books will take you visiting to the Smoky Mountains near where I live. ...
DeleteThank you so much for spotlighting my Edisto books on your blog ... I hope many of your readers will enjoy visiting this "real island" on the South Carolina coast in these books ... And if they'd rather visit the Smoky Mountains, I have many published novels set there, too!!! ... I love to take my readers traveling to real places in my books ... Happy Spring to all, Lin Stepp - Author
ReplyDeleteAmazing overs. Claire at Edisto sounds like great start of the trilogy.
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