Tagline: Sent away because of her feelings for a girl, she discovered a
birthright of magic at her aunt’s lake house.
Book Description:
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia is about to turn fourteen when her life is flipped
upside down. With her parents on the brink of a divorce, Zinnia is sent to
spend the summer with her eccentric great-aunts on their lake house away
from her home in Manhattan. Zinnia arrives at her aunt’s massive Victorian
house, with a heavy heart.
After a recent falling out, she had with her best friend Charlotte, who
betrayed her trust by showing the meanest and most popular girl in school a
letter Zinnia wrote confessing her feelings for Charlotte. The aunts rely on
practical magic, acceptance, and old family friends to help heal their
great-niece in more ways than one.
But what no one expected that summer was for Zinnia to meet Billie, another
girl who was more like Zinnia than she would have guessed.
Excerpt Charlie
flashed me a big, fatherly smile. The wrinkles around his eyes traveled down
the sides of his face, and for a moment I couldn’t believe how time had caught
up to him since my last visit. “Well, look at you, Zinnia! You’ve shot up like
a string bean.”
Charlie
reached straight for my suitcase and threw it into the truck. His hearty laugh
filled the cabin as we both buckled in. “I almost didn’t recognize you there
with how you’ve grown.” I looked down at my cramped legs, desperate to stretch
out as my knees touched the glove compartment. Charlie patted my back and
turned the key inside the ignition, bringing life to the beat-up truck as the engine groaned like an old dog too tired to wake from its
nap. “Here we go, String Bean! Off like a herd of turtles at the races.”
I cracked a smile at this, almost by accident, before wiping
it away and looking out of the window. I could admit that I liked Ole Charlie.
He’d been neighbors with my aunts for over forty years, and I’d known him all
my life, so I thought it was safe to say that he was basically family. “Wait
till your aunts get a look at you, string bean.”
I rolled my eyes as I tried, and once again failed, to
conceal my smile. Every time I visited my aunts, Ole Charlie gave me a new
nickname. I suppose my nickname for this summer is going to be string bean. I
whispered it to myself for a test drive and annoyingly, it wasn’t so annoying.
“It’s
been a few years since you and your mom visited us on Ambrosia Hill.” Charlie
looked over at me with his old brown eyes full of affection. “Not ashamed to
say we’ve missed you, string bean.”
About the Author:
Rebecca Henry is an American author living abroad in England. She is a
devoted vegan who gardens, practices yoga, crafts, travels the world, and
bakes. Rebecca’s favorite holiday is Halloween, and she is obsessed with
anything and everything witchy! Besides writing fiction, Rebecca is also
the author of her vegan holiday cookbook collection and green living
lifestyle book. Her love for animals, baking with her family, having a
plant-based diet, and cruelty-free, green lifestyle inspired her
nonfiction novels. You can find all Rebecca’s books on Amazon and
Goodreads.
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This sounds like a book I would enjoy. Great cover.
ReplyDeleteZinnia is a terrific character name. I would personally love to visit a victorian home especially being a lake house. Sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteNice trailer, great excerpt, like the cover and the book sounds like a must read for me! Thanks for sharing it with me and have an awesome day!
ReplyDeleteYesss
ReplyDeleteI love Victorian homes.
ReplyDeleteI am ready to dive into this new series.
ReplyDeleteNice Victorian house on the cover.
ReplyDeleteThis has a nice cover.
ReplyDeleteThanks, the cover looks great and the book sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love Victorian homes
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