THE ROAD TO EDEN'S RIDGE

The Road to Eden's Ridge is a love story evocative of The Bridgesof Madison County.

Less than an hour before her wedding, Lindsey Briggs stands in her bedroom ina Maine farmhouse and decides to call off the wedding and pursue her musicaldreams in Nashville, Tennessee. When she sings at the Bluebird Café, she meetsBen McBride, a country-singing legend and old army buddy of her grandfather. Thethreat of falling in love with McBride's young lawyer makes Lindsey flee back toMaine where she learns of the love years earlier between Ben and hergrandmother's sister Lily and the truth about her own past.

The book has been optioned for film by Lindsay Doran, producer of DeadAgain andSense and Sensibility, who says, "If a book issupposed to be a love story, I ask myself if I sob big sobs. When I readTheRoad to Eden's Ridge, I sob big sobs."

Lindsey Briggs leaves her fiance at the altar in her small Maine town and heads for Nashville to pursue her lifelong dream of being a country singer-songwriter in this quietly sentimental novel. After burying her musical inclinations under a Harvard education, 20-something Lindsey experiences an epiphany less than an hour before her wedding, standing in front of the mirror and listening to a recording of herself singing a song shed written half a lifetime before. She packs up her car and heads south, away from Eden's Ridge and the grandmother who raised her after her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a baby. Once in Nashville, armed with a guitar and a band of new friends, Lindsey encounters Ben McBride, the country singer who once visited her grandfather 50 years ago at his farm in Maine, and of whom she has an old photograph, a reminder of her grandfather's past and her own. What Lindsey doesn't know is the extent of McBride's involvement with her family and the secrets buried in her own life. Rose is the pseudonym for Myra McLary (Water in the Well) and Linda Weeks, who together breathe realism into their settings and life into their characters. Lindsey's lyrics, contributed by Nashville songwriters, leave depth and subtlety to be desired, but her passion for living and need to follow her heart make her a character with whom women readers will easily identify.
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