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Book Review of Wedding Ring (Shenandoah Album, Bk 1)

Wedding Ring (Shenandoah Album, Bk 1)
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This book is about 3 generations of woman needing to discover the healing gift of family, memories, and love. Tessa MacRae needs time to think about her troubled marriage, agrees to spend the summer with her mother and grandmother cleaning out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The 3 women have never been close. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy Tessa's mom appears to care more about social climbing, and Tessa is in turmoil following a family tragedy that has affected them all.

With the gift of time, Tessa's eyes are opened, and she begins to see her mother and grandmother for the flawed but courage filled women that they are. As she works on restoring a vintage wedding-ring quilt pieced by her grandmother and quilted by her mom, the secrets that have shadowed their lives unfold at last, and each woman discovers that sometimes you have to clean house to find the things you thought were lost.

An excellent book in this series.