Audio Book Description:
For Annie Barnes, going home to MiddleRiver means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest,once and for all, her misgivings about her mother`s recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. ButAnnie grew up there, and she knows all the secrets- just like her idol, Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town`ssexual secrets bare for all theworld tosee. Grace`s bold rebellion against 1950s conformity inspired Annie to get out of Middle River and make a life forherself. Annie Barnes is now abestselling author. Her success has given her a confidence she never had and theresidents of Middle River something new to worry about. When they hear Annie is returning for alengthy visit, everyone believes she`s come home to write aboutthem. But passion and rage propels Annie on a different course altogether. Coming face-to-face with decades of secrets andlies, she knows she must find the strength to move beyondthe legacy of Grace Metalious, defying her past to heal the wounds of the town and her ownfamily.
