THE PEACH KEEPER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06830011B44023
English Summary/英文概要： The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.
It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.
But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.
For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.
Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.
Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 纽约时代畅销书《追月亮的女孩》(The Girl Who Chased the Moon)的作家又带我们来到了新的地标——北卡罗莱纳州的水墙(Walls of Water, North Carolina)。城镇里著名的瀑布周围烟雾缭绕，而这里的秘密则比浓雾还要厚重，任何魔幻的事情都可以变为现实。
这引起了30岁的南方女孩维拉.杰克逊(Willa Jackson)的兴趣，她想从自己的家乡出发去北卡罗莱纳州探险，因为她的家族在几代人以前家道中落。蓝岭夫人(The Blue Ridge Madam)是由维拉的曾曾祖父在水墙的鼎盛时期建造的，杰克逊家族在城镇里也颇具名望，他们的家被看做是抵御不幸和丑恶事件的圣地。而维拉也一直希望不要活在家族的阴影之下。这并不是一件容易的事。
但是维拉后来遇到了老同学，社会名流帕克斯顿.奥斯古德(Paxton Osgood)，来自颇具威望的奥斯古德家族，使蓝岭夫人保持了昔日的辉煌，并计划开一家高档的饭店。也许最后，所有不堪的过去都会消失不见，而辉煌美好会在灰烬中重生。但是人们在桃子树下发现的却是一具骸骨，而不幸的事情并不只是这样。
这具骸骨是旅行商人塔克.德夫林(Tucker Devlin)的，他在75年之前用他的黑魔法为水墙工作过。随着骸骨的发现，所有隐藏的秘密似乎都要被公诸于众，而一系列奇怪的事件开始笼罩着整个小镇。
现在，看似不合拍的两个人被这个惊人的秘密联系在一起。维拉和帕克斯顿必须一起面对未知的危险和悲惨的背叛，并去发掘隐藏了数百年的秘密。
《桃树守护者》描述了一段坚不可摧的友谊，无论光阴荏苒，岁月变迁，一代一代的人总是联系在一起共同面对一切。(XAT & CK)
Awards/获奖情况：“秘密即将被揭晓。在艾伦的这部魔幻小说中，我们看到了南方世界中栩栩如生的人物，使读者爱不释手，想要用一晚上一口气读完。”—《南方文学评论》(Southern Literary Review)
“萨拉·艾迪艾伦(Sarah Addison Allen)融合了小镇的历史和小说魔幻元素，使得角色的发展和魔幻现实主义相互交织构成了一部精细的南方哥特式戏剧。”—《出版者周刊》(Publishers Weekly)
“这又是艾伦的一部佳作，想让人坐下一口气读完，她向我们展示了她非凡的写作功力，魔幻和现实的交界线似乎被艾伦模糊了。”—《书目》(Booklist)
“典型的艾伦式南方风格，也是艾丽丝·霍夫曼(Alice Hoffman)书迷的必读书籍。”—《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal)
“强烈推荐，这是本充满激情，细节也处理得很好的书。”—《丹佛邮报》(The Denver Post)
“Secrets are ready to be uncovered. . . . Allen masterfully weaves a Southern world of believable characters and keeps readers flipping pages with this dreamy one-nighter.”－Southern Literary Review
“Sarah Addison Allen juggles small-town history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama.”－Publishers Weekly
“In this delectable, read-in-one-sitting treasure, Allen once again demonstrates her astonishing ability to believably blur the lines between the magical and the mundane.”－Booklist
“Peppered with Allen’s trademark Southern charm . . . a must-read for fans of Alice Hoffman.”－Library Journal
“Immensely readable . . . pulses with sensual details.”－The Denver Post
About the Author/作者介绍： 萨拉·艾迪艾伦(Sarah Addison Allen)是《追月亮的女孩》(The Girl Who Chased the Moon)，《花园符咒》(Garden Spells)以及《糖果女皇》(The Sugar Queen)的作者。她在北卡罗莱纳州，阿什维尔(Asheville, North Carolina)出生长大。
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN is the author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon, Garden Spells, and The Sugar Queen. She was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina.
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