“The Fallen Fruit” by Shawntelle Madison

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The damage you did to yourself was bad enough, you didn’t need a head wound to lay you low, too. You haven’t skinned your knees like that since you were ten years old. Your elbow still hurts from that tumble. But read the new book, “The Fallen Fruit” by Shawntelle Madison and be grateful: you’re still in the here and now.She should’ve just put a “For Sale” sign on it and sold the place, like she was told.Cecily Bridge-Davis was warned by the locals that the portion of the old Bridge farm she’d inherited was “godforsaken,” but she had to see it. Maybe it would help her understand her father, who’d up and died when Cecily was just a baby. If she could find anything about him, the trip wouldn’t be wasted.The property was overgrown, rundown and there was a tumbledown cabin on it that she couldn’t resist. Inside the cabin, Cecily found a Bible and an X-marked map…Millie Bridge prayed that she’d be the one to fall.It was 1920, and her brother, Isaiah, was meant for better things. She’d be able to handle a trip back in time better than he, but it was a fifty-fifty chance. Their father...

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