Book Sarah Jio (set of 4 books)
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A successful young writer Emily Wilson leaves New York for Bainbridge Island to visit her great-aunt Bea. The girl has been through a divorce and a creative crisis, so she hopes that outside the metropolis she will be able to control her thoughts and feelings. However, life on the ocean shore is no longer as carefree as it seemed as a child during her holidays. Some of the islanders seem to be in a silent conspiracy. Emily is fond of her new friend Jack, but Grandma Bea is not happy about it.
England, 1940. The world's last specimen of the Middlebury pink camellia grows on the territory of a rural estate in England. On the eve of the Second World War, American Flora makes a deal with a thief. Her task is to break into the estate and find the camellia. The path to this goal turns out to be full of both joy and fear.
New York, our time. Addison, who works as a landscape designer, comes to the same estate with her husband Rex. Now this house is the property of Rex's parents. He, like his wife, loves detective stories, so when they find an album with dried camellia flowers in the old house, the couple decide to investigate. But what if the danger that Flora once faced is not over? Will Addison suffer the same fate as that girl?
1942. The fate of Anne Calloway is already clearly defined - she is engaged to Gerard Godfrey and is sure that she will be happy. But a few weeks before the wedding, Anne decides to go to the front as a nurse with her childhood friend Kitty. There, on Bora Bora, she meets a soldier, Westry Green, and their friendship turns into true love. In an abandoned bungalow, once home to a famous artist and considered a cursed place by the natives, the lovers create their own little world in the midst of bloody battles. The war will end, and these two will have to return to their former lives and make a choice - if nothing prevents them from being together.
Many years later, Grandma Ann receives a letter from a stranger who brings her back to those times. But will this story have a happy ending?
Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son Daniel, puts him to bed, and goes to work on the night shift at the local hotel. She returns to find that a May blizzard has covered the city in snow and her boy has disappeared. On the frozen street, Vera finds his favourite teddy bear, and the snow covers any trace of her son or the perpetrator.
Seattle, 2010. Claire Aldridge, a reporter for the Seattle Herald, is assigned to write about the May Day Blackberry Winter (a late spring cold snap) and its double from the past. She learns about a kidnapping that has never been solved and vows to find the truth. It turns out that there are many unexpected parallels between the lives of these two women....