The Broken Tree: The Laurelhurst Chronicles, #3

By Kellie Butler

An anxious homecoming, a three-hundred-year-old curse, and an obsessed, scorned heir bent on revenge. Welcome back to Laurelhurst.

Fifteen years ago, Lydie Cavert Bainbridge left the dark days of her youth at Laurelhurst Manor behind her. Now thirty-two and mistress of her family's Lancastrian estate, Lydie says a prayer under her breath as she and her family of five visits over the summer of 1959.

Not long after they arrive, Lydie and her husband Henry come across an ancient broken oak tree on the edge of the moors that holds a heartbreaking connection to a long-standing enemy that will stop at nothing to destroy Lydie and Henry's happiness.

As Lydie and Henry's siblings Edward Cavert and Kate Douglas arrive, they bring a host of new challenges and secret loves that threaten to unravel the bonds between them.  When Laurelhurst's annual summer bank holiday party arrives, tempers rise, rivalries emerge, and accusations explode that could shatter Henry and Lydie's world forever. Will the bonds between siblings stay strong, or will they splinter apart like the ancient tree they found near the moors?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raleigh Hills Press
• Release date: Aug 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386339830

Kellie Butler

Kellie Butler is the international bestselling author of Beneath a Moonless Sky, Before the Flood, The Broken Tree, Out of Night, and The Ties that Bind, all part of the five-star rated The Laurelhurst Chronicles series. Kellie has lived and traveled around the world but now calls the high desert of Arizona home. She loves coffee, walks with her dog, yoga, knitting, reading, classic rock, lofi hiphop, and classic film.