Meet Helen, the expert quilt maker and family curmudgeon, who pieced a Wedding ring quilt top for her hope chest, only to put it away without quilting it after her marriage ended abruptly.
Meet steel magnolia Nancy, Helen’s daughter, who found the top and quilted it in the early, unhappy days of her own marriage as she struggled to uphold and strengthen the vows she had made.
Meet Tessa, Nancy’s daughter, whose happy marriage, like the Wedding ring quilt, is now in tatters. Can Tessa restore the quilt and her marriage, or are both efforts futile?
Three women, three generations, forced together during one brutally hot summer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Which will break first, the heat wave that has sucked the life from the rich valley soil? The bonds tentatively uniting one small family?
Or will the lessons the women learn from each other save them all?
I wish we lived closer too. (responding to your post to me) I would love for you to know my kids and have a good friend closer too. I sure do miss you.
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