THE ROAD TO EDEN'S RIDGE
M. L. Rose, . . Rutledge Hill, $21.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-55853-993-8
Lindsey Briggs leaves her fiancé at the altar in her small Maine town and heads for Nashville to pursue her lifelong dream of being a country singer–songwriter in this quietly sentimental novel. After burying her musical inclinations under a Harvard education, 20-something Lindsey experiences an epiphany less than an hour before her wedding, standing in front of the mirror and listening to a recording of herself singing a song she'd written half a lifetime before. She packs up her car and heads south, away from Eden's Ridge and the grandmother who raised her after her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a baby. Once in Nashville, armed with a guitar and a band of new friends, Lindsey encounters Ben McBride, the country singer who once visited her grandfather 50 years ago at his farm in Maine, and of whom she has an old photograph, a reminder of her grandfather's past and her own. What Lindsey doesn't know is the extent of McBride's involvement with her family and the secrets buried in her own life. Rose is the pseudonym for Myra McLary (
Reviewed on: 07/15/2002
Genre: Fiction
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