The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare

Now available in trade paper–just in time for women’s history month–SIBA bestseller The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of women’s history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery,but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New Worldher book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive itbut her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. In the waning days of World War IIAlice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertellher abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the pastAlice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughterPennin tow. But when Penn’s curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor’s book is finally foundAlice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare. In this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brockthe answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \