First Frost (Waverley Family, #2) Published by St. Martin's Press Also in this series: Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by Sarah Addison Allen
on January 20, 2015
Genres: Chick-Lit, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance, Women's Fiction
Pages: 296
Format: eBook
Reading Challenges: Beat the Backlist 2020
Also by this author: Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1), Other Birds
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ISBN: 1250019834
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves..
It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree... and all the magic that swirls around it. But this year, first frost has much more in store.
Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley’s Candies. Though her handcrafted confections — rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds — are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts.
Sydney Waverley, too, is losing her balance. With each passing day she longs more for a baby — a namesake for her wonderful Henry. Yet the longer she tries, the more her desire becomes an unquenchable thirst, stealing the pleasure out of the life she already has.
Sydney’s daughter, Bay, has lost her heart to the boy she knows it belongs to.. if only he could see it, too. But how can he, when he is so far outside her grasp that he appears to her as little more than a puff of smoke?
When a mysterious stranger shows up and challenges the very heart of their family, each of them must make choices they have never confronted before. And through it all, the Waverley sisters must search for a way to hold their family together through their troublesome season of change, waiting for that extraordinary event that is First Frost.
Lose yourself in Sarah Addison Allen's enchanting world and fall for her charmed characters in this captivating story that proves that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It’s where the real story begins.
Because I was so eager to return to the world of the Waverly sisters, I started reading “First Frost” immediately after finishing “Garden Spells”!
We’re reunited with the Waverly sisters about ten years later. And in some ways they’ve both changed so much. In others, not-so-much.
Claire Waverly is still chugging along as a business owner. Only now, she’s in the business of candy. Unfortunately, things aren’t going the way she would like.
Sydney Waverly is having problems of her own. She’s got a teenage daughter, a thriving hairstyling business…but, there’s one more thing she really wants.
Also, we get to know Bay Waverly a little more in this book. Sydney’s, now teenage, daughter has grown up! And her gift is causing her pain and heartbreak.
Would Ms. Allen PLEASE give us more Waverlys?!
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