Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Runaway Quilt, An Elm Creek Quilts Mystery by Jennifer Chiaverini, Now Available at a Special Price

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster …

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

An Elm Creek Quilts Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 06/29/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini, Amazon Kindle format

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Did stationmasters of the Underground Railroad use quilts to signal to fugitive slaves?

Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm Creek Manor and how, using quilts as markers, Hans, his wife, Anneke, and Gerda came to beckon fugitive slaves to safety within its walls. When a runaway named Joanna arrives from a South Carolina plantation pregnant with her master's child, the Bergstroms shelter her through a long, dangerous winter — imagining neither the impact of her presence nor the betrayal that awaits them.

The memoir raises new questions for every one it answers, leading Sylvia ever deeper into the tangle of the Bergstrom legacy. Aided by the Elm Creek Quilters, as well as by descendants of others named in Gerda's tale, Sylvia dares to face the demons of her family's past and at the same time reaffirm her own moral center.

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

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