STONEY BECK

[jean houghton-beatty]

When Jenny Robinson's father dies of Huntington's disease, she tells her mother she will never marry out of fear that she might inherit the disease. Jenny's mother, filled with grief over her husband's death and guilt over secrets she never told her daughter, dies from an overdose of prescription pills. She leaves an unfinished note along with a snapshot of Jenny's biological father, a man she met in England's Lake District - that secret along neither Jenny nor anyone in her family could have guessed. Jenny is led irresistibly from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Stoney Beck, a village in Northwest England.
In Stoney Beck, Jenny rents a cottage on the grounds of the Hare and Hounds Inn, the same cottage her mother occupied when Jenny was conceived. On her first day, Jenny meets Biddy Biggerstaff who threatens to drive her away, saying she knows who Jenny is, why she has come, and has even seen her photograph.
Unforeseen connections leading to mortal danger-and-romance- await Jenny in the quiet village of Stoney Beck.
Jean Houghton-Beatty was born and educated in Liverpool, England. She moved to the United States after marrying her American husband and now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.