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Bahni Turpin
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Length
9 hours 57 minutes
Language
English
After a betrayal ends in tragedy, Katy seeks refuge from her abusive husband, Hank, in her quiet hometown of Cedar Branch, North Carolina. Taking up residence on the old family farm and landing a job at the local Quaker Café, she hopes to leave her troubled past behind.
At the café, Katy finds allies, kind people willing to protect her and offer advice. There’s the gracious owner who insists that manners prevail, the no-nonsense cook who tackles life with a cast iron frying pan, a Yankee transplant who doesn’t bow to convention, and a shrewd Southern lawyer who sees a chance for Katy to profit from her predicament. But when Hank discovers her whereabouts, Katy’s newfound peace is broken. As a heated standoff involving Hank, local and federal law enforcement, and the media ensues, how far will the Cedar Branch community go to avert violence and save lives?
Brenda Bevan Remmes has spent her career in health-care education as adjunct faculty with the medical schools at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and the University of South Carolina–Columbia. Her stories and articles have appeared in Newsweek and Southern publications and journals, and her first novel, The Quaker Café, was published in 2014. Remmes is a longtime member of the Religious Society of Friends (Conservative) of North Carolina. She lives with her husband near the Black River Swamp in South Carolina.
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“Cedar Branch has it all, a quaint and quirky town full of delightful characters. They’ll have you smiling one moment and shedding tears the next. I can’t wait to revisit!” —Heather Burch, bestselling author of One Lavender Ribbon and the Roads to River Rock series
“From page one, Brenda Bevan Remmes steals your heart with her writing. Home to Cedar Branch has love, intrigue, and life all tangled up together in a heartwarming story that proves love can truly conquer all.” —Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Ladies Room and The Wedding Pearls
“Brenda Bevan Remmes plops you smack dab in the middle of Cedar Branch as if part of the drama of everyday life and surrounds you with the humor, tension, and compassion of her richly developed, iconic characters that get under your skin, flow to your heart, and land in your soul.” —James Marshall Case, producer/actor
“Set against a backdrop of the Quaker faith, Remmes’s novel both thrills and enlightens the reader from its raucous beginning to a nail-biting conclusion. As Remmes’s character, Teensy, might say, Home to Cedar Branch is ‘as smooth as the first swallow of a good bourbon.’” —Bob Strother, author of Burning Time
“From her witty dedication until the quiet closing of elevator doors on final pages, Brenda Bevan Remmes welcomes us back to Cedar Branch and the Quaker Café with the humor, suspense, and deft touch required of Southern storytellers. Sometimes an author’s second novel is a disappointment, but Remmes has written a sequel that surpasses her first.” —Kimberlyn Blum-Hyclak, author of In the Garden of Life and Death
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