Moon Over Edisto

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The past has come knocking on Julias door. Can she summon the courage to answer betrayal with love

Once, they were the happiest family under the sun, crabbing and fishing and painting on beautiful Edisto Island in South Carolinas lowcountry. Then everything went wrong, and twenty years later the Bennett family is still in pieces. Mary Ellen still struggles to understand why her picture-perfect marriage came apart. Daughter Meg keeps a death grip on her own family, controlling her relationships at a distance. And Julia thought she left it all behind.

Julias best friend, Marney, broke up her parents marriage years ago. Now Marney shows up at her Manhattan apartment, asking the impossiblecome home to Edisto Island to care for the half-sisters and half-brother she has never known. Marney, recently widowed, has lung cancer. Theres no other family to care for the children while shes in the hospital following surgery.

Julia loathes Marney. But if she doesnt step in, her own motherwho has never gotten over the divorcewill be called upon to take care of the children. So Julia heads to South Carolina to keep the peace.

Julia grudgingly agrees to stay a week caring for her three young half-siblings. But theres something about Edisto that changes one, and she begins to reconnect with the place and the people that she's been running from her whole adult life.

Can Julia and her fractured family somehow manage to come together again under that low-hanging Edisto moon

• Contemporary Southern Christian fiction
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs
• Also by Beth Webb Hart: The Wedding Machine and Love, Charleston

Author Bio

Beth Webb Hart, a South Carolina native, is the best-selling author of Grace at Low Tide and The Wedding Machine. She serves as a speaker and creative writing instructor at schools, libraries, and churches throughout the region, and she has received two national teaching awards from Scholastic, Inc. Hart lives with her husband and their family in Charleston.