A southerner by birth, Mary Ellen Taylor’s love of her home state, Virginia, is evident in her contemporary women’s fiction, including her recent Winter Cottage and her latest, Spring House, both set on her beloved Eastern Shore of Viriginia. Multiple time periods over 100 years, the early 1900‘s, 1988, and 2018. Mary Ellen Taylor is the pen name that author Mary Burton uses to publish. Meet Mary Ellen. Lucy didn't know her mother had ever been to Virginia and wonders what the secrecy is about. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Winter Cottage. Rather than the quaint Virginian bungalow Lucy expected, Winter Cottage is a grand old estate of many shadows - big enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic stranger, a man next in line to claim Lucy’s inheritance. Winter Cottage by Mary Ellen Taylor is a delight to read. A Southerner by birth, Mary Ellen Taylor’s love of her home state of Virginia is evident in her contemporary women’s fiction. She firmly believes that stories create connections. Since then, she's been slipping favorite recipes into her novels from The Union Street Bakery, Sweet Expectations, At the Corner of King Street, The View from Prince Street, Winter Cottage to her latest, Spring House. Winter Cottage - Kindle edition by Mary Ellen Taylor. Lucy meets Hank Garrison, a lawyer who's handling the inheritance and who, coincidentally, will inherit … Rather than the quaint Virginian bungalow Lucy expected, Winter Cottage is a grand old estate of many shadows—big enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. Mary Ellen also writes suspense under the name Mary Burton, and her work has appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. takes more than 350 pages to tell readers what they can see coming in the first 30. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic stranger, a man next in line to claim Lucy’s inheritance. Taylor (The View from Prince Street, 2016, etc.) Mary Ellen is also known nationally as New York Times and USA Today bestselling suspense novelist Mary Burton. She hikes, practices yoga, and visits historical sites and lives with her two miniature dachshunds, Bella and Buddy. Rather than the quaint seaside bungalow Lucy expected, Winter Cottage is a grand old estate filled with shadows big enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. Mysteries in a small town that involve almost everyone who lives there. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic stranger, a man next in line to claim Lucy’s inheritance. “The Union Street Bakery” is the first novel in the “Union Street Bakery” series, which was released in the year 2013. The property turns out to be Winter Cottage, a mansion on hundreds of acres. Great storylines and realistic characters that kept me guessing to the end. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.