Old Castle Rumors

Elanna built the life everyone admired. Louisa became the sister everyone expected to disappoint.Now the truth may force them both to reconsider everything they believed about each other.Five months after her husband’s sudden death, Elanna could finally imagine a future she gets to choose for herself.Now rumors of her husband’s misdeeds seep into every aspect of Elanna’s life. Her standing in the community crumbles. People turn away when she enters a room. Despite her attempts to shield her children from the fallout, they’re changing, too. Seth is rebelling, Hailey is clingier than ever, and Charlotte is risking her future.Then her estranged sister arrives.Forty-two, eight months pregnant, and newly homeless, Louisa desperately needs Elanna’s help. But beneath that desperation is an ache she’s carried for years: Why is she the one person Elanna can’t love the way she loves everyone else?Then again, Louisa’s secret might destroy any chance of being welcomed back into her sister’s heart.Elanna and Louisa have spent years living inside different versions of their shared past. But as they question everything they thought they knew about each other, each must confront how much of the other’s story she never understood.With an innocent baby’s future caught between them, two sisters who have lost almost everything they trusted must decide whether there is enough left to rebuild.And whether there is still a path home to each other.Deeply emotional and ultimately hopeful, Old Castle Rumors is an uplifting women’s fiction novel about sisters, motherhood, betrayal, complicated grief, family secrets, and the fragile courage it takes to see the people we love more clearly. 6