SUSAN MEISSNER is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the historical fiction titles; The Nature of Fragile Things, The Last Year of The War, As Bright As Heaven, Secrets of a Charmed Life, and many others. With more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages Susan is an author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism.
California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she’d never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. In a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant. Banished by the Calverts, Rosanne believes she is bound for a home for unwed mothers. But she soon finds out she is not going to a home of any kind, but to a place that seeks to forcibly take her baby – and the chance for any future babies – from her.
Austria, 1947—After witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler’s brutal pursuit of hereditary purity—especially with regard to “different children”—Helen Calvert, Truman’s sister, is ready to return to America for good. But when she arrives at her brother’s peaceful vineyard after decades working abroad, she is shocked to learn what really happened nine years earlier to the vinedresser’s daughter, a girl whom Helen had long ago befriended. While the war had been won in Europe, there are still terrifying battles to be fought at home.
USA Today Bestselling Author
Date: Friday, March 15th 2024
Location: Grande Dunes Members Club- 1580 Terre Verde Drive, Myrtle Beach, SC 29579
Time: 10:45AM- 1:00PM
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