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Come celebrate the release of Crozet local Elizabeth Becker's new book, The Moonlight Healers. A grounded read with a magical twist and both contemporary and historical threads, perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Weyward. Set partially in present day, at a lush orchard in Crozet, Virginia, at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Appalachia, and during WWII in Rouen, a beautiful city on the Seine in Normandy, France. Perfect for book clubs. While a tearjerker, the novel is a hopeful and accessible exploration of love, life, and death, topics people have been confronted with in a whole new way since the pandemic, in the vein of novels like The Collected Regrets of Clover. A deeply empathetic, heartfelt novel about mothers and daughters, life and death, and the beautiful resilience of love.
One woman’s discovery of her family’s secret healing abilities, they can bring people back to life, and the mysterious consequences she must contend with when she uses them on someone she loves.
For generations, the Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift: they can heal with the touch of a hand. It’s a tradition they’ve always had to practice in secret, in the moonlight hours, when the fireflies dance and the whippoorwill birds sing.
But not every healer has rightfully passed on this knowledge to her descendants, and for young Louise Winston, the discovery of her abilities comes in less-than-ideal circumstances—she brings her best friend back from death following an accident, the day after he professed his long-held feelings for her, five days before she’s supposed to move away.
Desperate for answers, and to avoid this new reality between them, Louise escapes to her grandmother’s lush Appalachian orchard. There, she uncovers her family’s hidden history in a tattered journal, stemming back to her brave great-grandmother who illicitly healed Allied soldiers in war-torn France. But just as Louise begins to embrace her unique legacy, she learns that it can also come with a mysterious cost. And with a life hanging in the balance, she’ll be forced to make the most impossible of choices.
AUTHOR IS A FORMER NURSE: Elizabeth Becker is a former nurse, a nice off-the-page hook to fit with the healing angle, and writes with incredible empathy informed by her experience in the nursing field.
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