Julie Engstrom has brought her family to the deserted ghost town of Mae’s Second Chance. She knew that her family needed something different as they struggled to deal with the loss that has changed their lives forever. Her hope is they will find it here in the valley with its century’s old buildings, rich history, and a mystery surrounding its founder that has drawn everyone’s interest.
As they settle into their new life a friendly face from the one they left behind arrives unexpectedly. Julie is thrilled to see him…her kids are ecstatic.
Anderson McGuire considered Dan Engstrom one of the best friends he’d ever had and wants to make certain for himself that everything is going exactly as it should for Julie and the kids. He was also far more curious than he was willing to admit about the honest to goodness ghost town they now called home.
Once there he finds that the old saloon is exactly the project he needs to keep him busy even as he also helps out in the restoration of the town in any other way that he can. It isn’t long before he realizes his assistance and support is needed in more ways than helping to fix up the two-hundred-year old buildings.
Treasures Found is the second book in the continuing story of a family as they work their way through a tragedy and at the same time come to terms with the impact of a sudden and unforeseen financial windfall. How do they celebrate one even as they grieve the other?
If you enjoy clean, wholesome women’s fiction, characters that will tug at your heart, Mae’s Second Chance series may be perfect for you.
Mae’s Second Chance series. Home to the Valley – Book 1 Treasures Found – Book 2 Valley Secrets – Book 3 Mae’s Hope – Book 4 Sisters of the Heart – Book 5 Castle in the Beyond – Book 6
I fell in love with books when I was in the 4th grade and my free period was spent volunteering in the school library. I read every Nancy Drew book there was to check out, discovered collections of myths and fairy tales from around the world, Louisa May Alcott and C.S. Lewis, and decided I wanted my own library. By the end of that summer with the supplies our school librarian graciously provided me my books had due date slips, card pockets, book cards, and black electrical tape on the spine with the first three letters of the author's last name. I still have most of those books. In the hope she could get me involved in something else my mother gave me a camera. Right around the same time my father told me I could use his typewriter when he wasn't using it. The typewriter won. We shared his typewriter but I also filled notebooks with stories scribbled before school, after school, and often when I was supposed to be asleep. Thanks to my mother, who saved just about every single one of those notebooks, I still have them as well. Several years ago my father gave me his typewriter…the same one we shared all those summers ago. Every time I look at it I remember the young 4th grade girl who was quietly encouraged to do what she loved…and years later reminded with a box filled with notebooks crammed full of handwritten stories and dreams. And it’s still not unheard of that I stay up way later than I should with a good book that’s just impossible to put down.
Treasures Found is the second book in the Mae’s Second Chance series.
Julie Engstrom has brought her family to the deserted ghost town of Mae’s Second Chance. She knew that her family needed something different as they struggled to deal with the loss that has changed their lives forever.