Mia Landon travels to a mountain sanctuary near Asheville, North Carolina, while she begins her recovery from breast cancer.
As she searches newspaper archives and listens to the colorful memories of the local small-town residents, the story of a proud, fiercely indep.
She begins a quest to uncover the truth behind the lies.
Mia has been learning to fly-fish, and Kate\'s wise words comparing life to a River resonate deeply.
The inspiring words of the remarkable woman echo across the years.
And though Belle, ashamed of the tabloid scandal that tortured her mother, warns Mia not to stir the mud, Mia is compelled to find out more about Kate...especially when she discovers Kate\'s journal.
From her first step inside the dusty cabin, Mia is fascinated by the traces of Kate\'s mysterious story left behind in the eccentric furnishings of the cabin.
Little does Belle know that by opening the cabin doors to Mia for a summer\'s sanctuary, she will open again the scandal that plagued Belle\'s family for generations.
After her death the fishing cabin remained locked and abandoned for decades.
Her fortune lost in the stock market crash and her reputation destroyed, Kate slipped into seclusion in the remote cabin.
Belle recently inherited the cabin, which once belonged to a grandmother she never knew -- the legendary fly fisher and journalist of the 1920s, Kate Watkins, whose life fell into ruins after she was accused of murdering her lover.
She seeks refuge in a neglected fishing cabin belonging to her fly-fishing instructor, Belle Carson.
Recovering from breast cancer and reeling from her husband\'s infidelity, Mia Landan flees her Charleston home to heal in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.
Time Is a River is an insightful novel that will sweep readers away to the seductive southern landscape, joining books by authors such as Anne Rivers Siddons and Sue Monk Kidd.
Every book that Mary Alice Monroe has written has felt like a homecoming to me, writes Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides.
With a strong, warm voice that brings the South to life, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe writes richly textured stories that intimately portray the complex and emotional relationships we share with families, friends, and the natural world.
There, she discovers the long lost journal of a well-known fly-fisherwoman from the 1920s--an account which draws her back into the world around her.
Mia Landon travels to a mountain sanctuary near Asheville, North Carolina, while she begins her recovery from breast cancer
