A Novel of Sisters, Secrets and Atonement



New York Times bestselling author Karen White delivers a novel of two generations of sisters and secrets set in the stunning South Carolina Lowcountry. 

The Time Between

Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her memories of him are all that tempers the guilt she feels over the accident that put her sister in a wheelchair and the feelings she harbors for her sister’s husband.

To help support her sister, Eleanor works at a Charleston investment firm during the day, but she escapes into her music, playing piano at a neighborhood bar. Until the night her enigmatic boss walks in and offers her a part-time job caring for his elderly aunt, Helena, back on Edisto. For Eleanor, it’s a chance to revisit the place where she was her happiest and to share her love of music with grieving Helena, whose sister recently died under mysterious circumstances.

An island lush with sweetgrass and salt marshes, Edisto has been a peaceful refuge for Helena, who escaped with her sister from war-torn Hungary in 1944. The sisters were well-known on the island, where they volunteered in their church and community. But now Eleanor will finally learn the truth about their past: secrets that will help heal her relationship with her own sister and set Eleanor free.

"In The Time Between, author Karen White moves smoothly between narrators as well as different time periods, crafting an intriguing and romantic family drama that will appeal to fans of Sarah Jio and Dorothea Benton Frank." (Booklist Reviews)

Family Secrets inYou Are The Love Of My Life

Lucy, children's book illustrator and single mother leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in the Washington house where she grew up and where she discovered her father’s suicide. With the back drop of Watergate, Lucy's life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father’s death or the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. Susan Shreve's You Are The Love Of My Life is a gothic story of complicated family secrets and how those secrets can stand in the way of human connections.

Dark Days of China's Cultural Revolution in A Hundred Flowers

"Let a hundred flowers bloom.  Let a hundred school of thoughts contend."
Though Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society with citizens free to express their views about Communism, many intellectuals fear it is a trick.  Kai Ying must safeguard her family after her teacher husband is arrested for criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labor camp for "reeducation".  A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama is a powerful novel about an ordinary family experiencing China's Cultural Revolution.