Edilean series

A heartwarming romance about a woman who finds true love in a small town, from New York Times bestselling author, Jude Deveraux.
Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider—until she met Edilean...

In this third book of the multigenerational Edilean series, a woman thinks she's found the man of her dreams, but he may be hiding secrets that threaten their cherished love--and their life together.

Deveraux's novel follows graduate student Gemma Ranford as she takes a job cataloging old family papers for the Fraziers in Edilean, Virginia. The family is looking for clues to a lost heirloom--a stone said to grant wishes. But soon eldest Frazier son Colin becomes entranced by another gem--the captivating Gemma.

Kim's happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis, who came to Edilean with his mother under mysterious circumstances. At the end of that innocent season, he promised Kim he would return one day-- and then vanished without even a goodbye. When she least expects it, Travis, now a savvy Manhattan attorney, will crash into her life once more. Will Kim see the boy she knew under the man he's become?...

Eli and Chelsea lost touch with each other over the years, until Eli bought a house in his father's hometown of Edilean, Virginia, and invited Chelsea for a visit. She had her own life, and was certain that a childhood friendship couldn't be anything more, but she went nonetheless and found herself quite unprepared for the changes she saw in Eli. And neither of them were prepared to run into a mystery with a family that needs to be rescued.