Valley Secrets

Mae's Second Chance #3

by Jacie Middlemann

Valley Secrets is the third book in the Mae’s Second Chance series.

Julie Engstrom came to the ghost town in Mae’s valley in search of what she and her children needed. She wanted all of them to have the chance to find their way forward after the loss of the man who meant so much to all of them.

In the weeks and months since their arrival she realized that the deserted ghost town’s founder had come to the valley in search of the same thing…and more. Safety for herself and all those she loved.

Julie was determined to find out why.

Valley Secrets is the continuing story of a family as they find 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? And even as they find answers to many of their questions surrounding the mystery of who Mae really was others elude them. Will they every learn her real identity?

Mae's Second Chance series

Home to the Valley
Treasures Found
Valley Secrets
Mae's Hope
Sisters of the Heart
Castle in the Beyond

147 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2018

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Barb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third book in the series, and I liked all three, but I am done with her cliffhangers

[rg gorham · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read all books in the series so far. I hope that are more the last one kind of left me up in the air.the stories are really different and very interesting I highly recommend them