Carolina Chronicles

Lisa Wingate

When restaurant owner Whitney Monroe faces financial ruin and a hostile takeover, a return to North Carolina’s Outer Banks forces her to confront a family past she thought she had left behind. While sorting through heirlooms, Whitney discovers an old necklace and a Depression-era love story connected to the WPA folklore writers of the Blue Ridge Mountains—clues that may reshape her understanding of her family and her own future. Blending contemporary struggles with historical mystery, the novel explores family, forgiveness, grief, faith, and the courage to hope again, with a gentle thread of romance. Lisa Wingate’s lyrical prose and evocative Southern settings bring past and present together in this heartfelt Carolina Heirlooms tale.