From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of secrets, romance, and two women bound together across time by a shared dream.
Tenley Roth’s first book was a runaway bestseller. Now that her second book is due, she’s locked in fear. Can she repeat her earlier success or is she a fraud who has run out of inspiration?
With pressure mounting from her publisher, Tenley is weighted with writer’s block. But when her estranged mother calls asking Tenley to help her through chemotherapy, she packs up for Florida where she meets handsome furniture designer Jonas Sullivan and discovers the story her heart’s been missing.
A century earlier, another woman wrote at the same desk with hopes and fears of her own. Born during the Gilded Age, Birdie Shehorn is the daughter of the old money Knickerbockers. Under the strict control of her mother, her every move is decided ahead of time, even whom she’ll marry. But Birdie has dreams she doesn’t know how to realize. She wants to tell stories, write novels, make an impact on the world. When she discovers her mother has taken extreme measures to manipulate her future, she must choose between submission and security or forging a brand new way all on her own.
Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds, but fate has bound them together in a way time cannot erase.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Writing Desk
Book Author: Rachel Hauck
What do you like about this book:
"Alone was the loneliest place on earth."
Following the death of her beloved father, Tenley Roth pours herself into a lukewarm relationship while basking in the overwhelming success of her first novel. Quite unexpectedly, she receives a desperate request from her estranged mother, sending her from New York to Florida, where she "meets" an antique desk . . . . . . and a fascinating man. Struggling to overcome writer's block, she makes a decision that will fortunately or unfortunately change the course of her career, and perhaps even her family history.
Birdie Shehorn is one of many sought-after heiresses during the Gilded Age; beautiful, rich, and headed for an arranged marriage, unless she can assert her independence over an overbearing mother. Longing to use her education wisely, Birdie secretly pursues a writing career, writing furiously on a beautiful desk tucked deep inside her third floor attic. When presented with a rare opportunity to marry for love, it appears that all will be lost in expectations, unless truth can forge a way.
This lovely dual timeline traces the lives of two very different women, with remarkably similar struggles, and hearts that long for a forever love. Rachel Hauck has certainly penned a satisfying blend of winsome wit and classic romance!
I received a copy of this book from the author. The opinions stated are entirely my own.
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