When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched.

Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather's death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn't exist--or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace--and a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace's charms tell the story of three friends during the 1920s--each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook.

Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.

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AUTHOR
Karen White, author of ten award-winning novels, is a graduate of Tulane University and the American School in London. She currently lives in Georgia with her husband and two children. When not writing, she spends her time reading, singing, scrapbooking, carpooling children and avoiding cooking.

AUTHOR PAGES
karen-white.com
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TITLES FROM KAREN WHITE (click on title)
The House On Tradd Street
The Lost Hours
The Memory of Water
The Girl On Legere Street
On Folly Beach

NARRATOR
Beth DeVries has been working professionally as an actor for over 15 years. Her credits include numerous musicals, plays, voiceovers, commercials, and training videos. She has performed all over the country, and makes her home in Seattle.