Tori Whitaker Libros

Three generations of women--and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane, with whom she's weathered a shaky relationship, suddenly moves back home. Then Millie's granddaughter shares the thrilling surprise that she's pregnant. But for Millie, the news stirs heartbreaking memories of a past she's kept hidden for too long. Maybe it's time she shared something, too. Millie's last wish? For Jane to forgive her. Sixty years ago Millie was living a dream. She had a husband she adored, a job of her own, a precious baby girl, and another child on the way. They were the perfect family. All it took was one irreversible moment to shatter everything, reshaping Millie's life and the lives of generations to come. As Millie's old wounds are exposed, so are the secrets she's kept for so long. Finally revealing them to her daughter might be the greatest risk a mother could take in the name of love.

A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn's Last Wish. Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. With an ex-fiancé and a pending promotion at a Kentucky bourbon distillery, Melanie has figured out that love and career don't mix. Until she makes a discovery while cleaning her Jordan MX car, a scarlet-red symbol of the Jazz Age's independent women that she inherited from her great-great-great-aunt Violet. Its secret compartment holds Violet's weathered journal--within it an intriguing message: Take from this story what you will, Melanie, and you can bury the rest. Melanie wonders what more there is to learn from Violet's past. In 1921 Violet Bond defers to no one. Hers is a life of adventure in Detroit, the hub of the motorcar boom and the fastest growing city in America. But in an era of speakeasies, financial windfalls, free-spirited friends, and unexpected romance, it's easy to spin out of control. Now, as Melanie's own world takes unexpected turns, her life and Violet's life intersect. Generations apart, they're coming into their own and questioning what modern womanhood--and happiness--really means.

Je rok 2018. Melanie Barnettová má za to, že už ví, o čem život je. Je zaměstnaná v marketingovém oddělení palírny kentuckého bourbonu, kde se má rozhodovat o jejím povýšení, a po rozchodu s bývalým snoubencem je přesvědčená, že láska a kariéra nejdou skloubit. Pak ovšem v tajné zásuvce automobilového veterána Jordana MX, šarlatové rudého sporťáku a symbolu jazzové éry, kterého jí odkázala její prapraprateta Violet, objeví ohmataný deník obsahující tajuplnou zprávu: Přeber si z tohohle příběhu, co chceš, Melanie, a na zbytek zapomeň. Je rok 1921. Violet Bondová se nemusí nikomu podřizovat. Vypravila se do Detroitu, energií kypícího centra prosperujícího automobilového průmyslu a nejrychleji se rozvíjejícího města Ameriky, kde jí život přináší nečekaná dobrodružství. Jenže ve světě ilegálních náleven, nových přátel a nečekaných lásek je snadné ztratit kontrolu nad vlastním životem. Když se Melanie ocitne na životní křižovatce, její a Violetin osud se nečekaně protnou. Ač je dělí několik generací, obě uvažují o tom, jak chtějí žít, a ptají se, co vlastně znamená být moderní ženou.