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Crooked Lines

by Sally Barclay Faddis

A fresh start tested by family history

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A fresh start tested by family history

Dahlia’s attempt to build a quieter life takes shape around an old inn in the Sierra foothills, but a planned family weekend brings familiar tensions into the refuge she has created. The description links her deepest fear of not being enough to a wound beneath her father’s anger, placing grief and family patterns alongside her effort to define herself anew. A budding romance adds another possibility as Dahlia weighs her ties to her family against the person she hopes to become. The story’s central tension rests on the difficulty of making a fresh start while old relationships still exert a pull.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories about grief, bereavement, and family dynamics.
  • Readers who enjoy fiction about rebuilding a life and finding a sense of self.
  • Readers drawn to family-centered stories with a budding romance.

Themes

Grief and bereavementFamily patterns and conflictSelf-worth and identityStarting over

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Book overview

Dahlia thought leaving her fast-paced life behind would quiet the ache she carried for years. Rebuilding an old inn in the Sierra foothills was meant to be her fresh start, a place where peace could take root and the past could no longer reach her.

 

When her family arrives for a carefully planned weekend, the sanctuary she'd built begins to crack. Old patterns resurface, and beneath her father's anger lies the wound that shaped Dahlia's deepest fear: that she will never be enough.

 

As tensions rise-a budding romance offering the promise of something meaningful-Dahlia is pulled in different directions. She must decide what she owes to the family she was born into and what she owes the woman she is becoming.

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