The Quilt She Kept

Some names the valley buried. One it only hid.

Winter has settled over Cedar Hollow, and the quilting circle is working the strangest cloth they've ever been handed: a ledger stitched in secret across a hundred and thirty years - a record of every soul this valley chose to forget.

But the newest name on it isn't old at all. It belongs to a woman sent away in 1962 and mourned with an empty grave - a woman the records quietly insist never actually died.

Nell Ashby has been waiting sixty years for someone to come.

With their newest member - a retired nurse who knows exactly how the forgotten disappear - and ninety-four-year-old Winnie riding shotgun, Abby Vance and the circle set out two counties over to open a door that never should have closed. What they find is a woman who never stopped sewing: who stitched the truth of a covered-up death into every quilt she made, and counted every single day they kept her.

For the first time in the circle's history, they aren't too late.

But bringing Nell home means naming what a founding family did in the dark - and the past does not always want to be brought into the light.

The sixth Cedar Hollow Quilters Mystery - a cozy, heart-deep tale of grace over punishment, found family, and the stubborn women who refuse to let anyone be forgotten. Includes two recipes from the Cedar Hollow kitchen.