Season of the Dragonflies: A Novel
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For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured a perfume unlike any other, and guarded the unique and mysterious ingredients. Their perfumery, hidden in the quiet rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, creates one special elixir that secretly sells for millions of dollars to the world's most powerful—movie stars, politicians, artists, and CEOs. The Lenore's signature perfume is actually the key to their success.
Willow, the coolly elegant Lenore family matriarch, is the brains behind the company. Her gorgeous, golden-haired daughter Mya is its heart. Like her foremothers, she can "read" scents and envision their power. Willow's younger daughter, dark-haired, soulful Lucia, claims no magical touch, nor does she want any part of the family business. She left the mountains years ago to make her own way. But trouble is brewing. Willow is experiencing strange spells of forgetfulness. Mya is plotting a coup. A client is threatening blackmail. And most ominously, the unique flowers used in their perfume are dying.
Whoever can save the company will inherit it. Though Mya is the obvious choice, Lucia has begun showing signs of her own special abilities. And her return to the mountains—heralded by a swarm of blue dragonflies—may be the answer they all need.
"Magical, romantic, and riveting. You won't be able to put it down." —New York Times bestselling author Nina de Gramont
*New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams
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Sarah Creech. (2014). Season of the Dragonflies: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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Whoever can save the company will inherit it. Though Mya is the obvious choice, Lucia has begun showing signs of her own special abilities. And her return to the mountains—heralded by a swarm of blue dragonflies—may be the answer they all need.
"Magical, romantic, and riveting. You won't be able to put it down." —New York Times bestselling author Nina de Gramont
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"Sarah Creech weaves together a magical tale of sisters and mothers and the power of human love. Season of the Dragonflies is a rich, deeply satisfying debut. — Beatriz Williams, author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant
"Season of the Dragonflies is a magical, romantic, and riveting novel. You won't be able to put it down, and as soon as you finish reading, you'll begin waiting for Sarah Creech's next book. What a dazzling new talent!" — Nina de Gramont, author of Meet Me at the River
"By turns charming and suspenseful, this is a memorable first novel." — Publishers Weekly
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Creech’s debut brings a magical realist touch to a tale of choices and consequences. In early-20th-century America, 18-year-old Serena Lenore defies her businessman father and elopes with Alex Bannister, a handsome young doctor. They live for a while in Borneo, where Alex researches the medical uses of local plants, and Serena discovers a new kind of flower. After the couple returns to America, settling down in Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Serena uses the flower to create a perfume that magically bestows success upon the women who wear it. Moving ahead to the present, the narrative finds Serena’s daughter, Willow, heading the company founded by her mother, which is now called Lenore International, but beginning to lose her memory. Willow has two daughters: Mya, who has devoted herself to the business, and Lucia, who has rejected it to pursue acting in New York City. Lucia returns, however, after the failure of both her marriage and career. Meanwhile, dissatisfied customer Zoe Bennett, a fading Hollywood star, blackmails Lenore International by threatening to tell the world about the perfume, until now a secret to everyone but the company’s select clients. By turns charming and suspenseful, this is a memorable first novel. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM.
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In North Carolina author Creech's first novel, three headstrong women--Willow Lenore and her two grown daughters, Mya and Lucia--realize their high-end perfume business is in trouble. Few know the magical properties of the gardenias grown on the Lenore property--isolated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains--or the secret power of attraction their perfume provides to a select clientele. Handed down from mother to daughter for generations, the formula is never changed, until the Lenore women realize the future of the business entrusted to them is threatened. Fantastical elements, such as dragonflies that follow Lucia around and friendly deer that give piggyback rides, are breezed over in a quickly moving story involving man trouble, sibling rivalry, life-changing events, Hollywood intrigue, and death. VERDICT Fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Tiffany Baker will enjoy this charming, fast-paced novel that lightly blends folksy magical realism with a story of strained family relationships, messy romantic entanglements, and the power of the female bond. [See Prepub Alert, 2/3/14.]--Laurie Cavanaugh, Holmes P.L., Halifax, MA
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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