Title: The Union Street Bakery (book #1 A Union Street Bakery)
Author: Mary Ellen Taylor
Source: Publisher request
Genre: Paranormal mystery
Length: Trade size 352 psg
Reviewed by: Laurie
Life
can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People
die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray
us...Stuff happens.
Daisy
McCrae’s life is in tatters. She’s lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend,
and has been reduced to living in the attic above her family’s store, the Union
Street Bakery, while learning the business. Unfortunately, the bakery is in
serious hardship. Making things worse is the constant feeling of not being a
“real” McCrae since she was adopted as a child and has a less-than-perfect
relationship with her two sisters.
Then
a long-standing elderly customer passes away, and for some reason bequeaths
Daisy a journal dating back to the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie.
As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she
ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find
her,” she is compelled to look further into the past of the town and her
family.
What
she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life, and a chance to
begin again with the courage and desire she thought she lost for good.
