Sophia Alexander

Three consecutive generations of lovely, resilient women experience romance and heartache in this Southern Gothic family saga. In Silk, Caroline is excited to find work and meet new people during her move to Kingstree, South Carolina—but gets more than expected when the town doctor and a light-hearted farmer both engage her affections. Her daughters try to unravel their mother's past while facing illness, separation, and trauma in Tapestry. Later, Caroline's granddaughter, Ginny, deals with forbidden love in Homespun. Each is profoundly affected by a single antagonist in the form of intense, inflexible Jessie Bell. Jessie presents her burgeoning obsession with Clayton from the very first chapter while traversing the Lowcountry en route to Charleston in 1899, and she is just as single-minded and dangerous three decades later, at the trilogy's conclusion.