An unknown casualty of World War II surfaces some thirty-three years later, when in 1979, Dale Johnson is forced to confess to his daughter, Beth, that she was the product of a wartime love affair. His wife was duped, he admits, into adopting his own child when her biological mother thought she was dying in England. Afraid to take her illegitimate daughter home to her rigid parents, Maggie Paxton makes the mistake of a lifetime and sends her baby girl to America and then lives to regret it. It is not until the adopting mother dies of breast cancer and the daughter fears the same for herself that her father is compelled to tell her that she had been adopted and regrettably never told. He opens what he fears will be Pandora's Box, but what proves instead to be the revival of long lost truths that no one person could have known. As the pieces of truth come together and trust evolves, old and new romances can come out of the darkness of deception and into the light of day.
Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Meredith Kennon grew up on a farm near there. She loves America's Midwest and all things rural, but when it comes to reading, her first love is World War II stories, particularly about the English homefront. Her husband travels the country as a consultant and when on the road with him in the winter, she passes her time writing. Her first book, Under the Same Umbrella was written in 2008, and she has written four novels since. Her fifth book is entitled "Return to Greystone" and is the third in her Greystone Trilogy which began with Almost Enough followed by At Willows Edge.
She writes the kind of book she likes to read, she says. Her books reflect her values and her passion for all things rural and domestic. Writing to please herself and not a fickle and trendy public, Meredith Kennon knows her books are a throwback to simpler times, even old fashioned, for which she makes no apology. Her mantra is "less is more," which many find interesting, as she and her husband of forty-two years had six children and now have twenty-four grandchildren scattered across the United States.
