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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Paint and Nectar
Book Author: Ashley Clark
What do you like about this book:
" . . . redemption, like sunlight, always reaches through the gates, and that we, like flowers, bend toward what grows us. So that the imitations and likenesses we have accepted as originals are exposed as deception, and we are left with the hope of a truer inheritance, a truer promise; a second garden, where all the dead things come alive . . . . "
An imitator, that's what he was about to become. In all reality it was thievery. But William was up to his eye balls in it, he just never expected to fall in love with the watercolorist whose originals he was tasked with duplicating. Eliza Jane had a remarkable talent, her paintings came to life on the page in spite of the unpredictable nature of her color blends. Unfortunately, trouble was brewing around both painters, an undercurrent of desperation, born out of greed between two feuding families; where was the famed Revolutionary War silver?
Years later, Lucy Legare loved everything about Charleston, South Carolina. She loved the history, the art, the architecture, the eateries . . . . . she would just love it a lot more if she could find full time employment and a place to call her own. When an opportunity that appeared too good to be true presented itself, she capitalized on it, and with it came dreams of restoring the beautiful old home back to its former glory; until the man she once thought could be more, stepped in with an offer that she would refuse. . . . and in the stepping, Lucy Legare and Declan Pickney become hopelessly mired in the marsh of ancestral disagreement. What is truly worth preserving? And could the answer to a generations old mystery be hidden in plain sight?
What a beautiful story! Utilizing lush metaphorical imagery, the author deftly paints her own landscape through the lives of her characters, who come to realize that, "maybe beauty's greatest achievement isn't in the staying . . . but that in its return, again and again, it paints the eternal - all the beautiful things that will never fade".