The Road to Eden's Ridge

Book excerpt: The Road to Eden's Ridge is a love story evocative of The Bridges of Madison County. Less than an hour before her wedding, Lindsey Briggs stands in her bedroom in a Maine farmhouse and decides to call off the wedding and pursue her musical dreams in Nashville, Tennessee. When she sings at the Bluebird Cafe, she meets Ben McBride, a country-singing legend and old army buddy of her grandfather. The threat of falling in love with McBride's young lawyer makes Lindsey flee back to Maine where she learns of the love years earlier between Ben and her grandmother's sister Lily and the truth about her own past. The book has been optioned for film by Lindsay Doran, producer of Dead Again and Sense and Sensibility, who says, "If a book is supposed to be a love story, I ask myself if I sob big sobs. When I read The Road to Eden's Ridge, I sob big sobs."