Ellen was a successful city girl with a banking career and a lonely life since the death of her beloved mother. Suddenly a solicitor contacts her with the news that she had a grandmother, now deceased, and was the beneficiary of a property in Warburton. Ellen is heartbroken that her mother kept her family a secret all her life.
After renovating the old house and moving to Warburton, Ellen discovers that her previously unknown family held many secrets including a missing grandfather, a nasty older neighbour who seems to have run away with her mother thirty-five years earlier and disappeared into thin air, and that this nasty older neighbour may be her father.
White Lilies is a mystery with a touch of murder, romance and family history. From a lonely city girl with no family or ties, Ellen transforms her life into a happy country girl with a sense of belonging, and seeks to solve the mystery of the missing men in her family.
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Thought this was a really good book, loved the storyline. More interesting with location of the story, which gives some insights into the Aussie bush and history of the area.
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Characters were well rounded and easy to like, the heroine’s journey from city girl to country was lovely, and I loved her dog!
Can’t wait for more from this author, and having also read “Viktoria” I would urge everyone to give that a try as well. Very different genre to “White Lilies” and an exciting read.
White Lilies – the idea
White Lilies was the first book that I wrote though the second one I published.
Many of us like to think that there may be a secret relative somewhere, unknown to us, that leaves a significant amount of money or estate to us when they pass on, not unlike when we are children, thinking that perhaps we are a kidnapped prince or princess growing up in normal society when there is a castle and country looking for us.
What if, there really was a secret relative who died and left a property to you, but there was a sad story attached to it? A relative that you wish you had known, who would have meant more to you than the bequeathed property?
Inheriting a country property would be life-changing in so many ways, and if it happened to a city career girl, what would the changes in her life entail? Then, I imagined a horrible family mystery that had kept the city girl separated from the relative that she should have known and loved.
Of course, it also had to happen in a town that I am familiar with, having worked my first job in Warburton after leaving school.
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