The Pickle Queen
A Crossroads Cafe Novella
Book Two of The MacBrides
Pickles are mentioned in the Bible. Cleopatra ate them as a beauty
regimen. Shakespeare put them in his plays. Mason designed jars for
bottling them. So did Ball. Did Mason and Ball fight over the King
of the Pickle Jars title? I don't know. I did know this much: I
used pickles to keep fear, pride, and my love of Jay Wakefield
behind a door I would not risk opening again. Even now.
Wakefields take what they want. MacBrides never surrender. For
nearly a hundred years, a battle of wills between these two
deeply-rooted Appalachian families has ended in defeat and
heartache-most often, for MacBrides. Now the MacBride name is
barely more than a legend, and it's up to Gabby MacBride to deal
with the pain of her childhood memories and also the challenge of a
MacBride legacy she's only beginning to understand.
That will mean coming to terms with her bittersweet love for Jay
Wakefield, the lonely rich boy who became her soul mate when they
were kids, before the dark demands of his own legacy forced him to
betray her.