Wildwood Creek, Lisa Wingate
Wildwood Creek, Lisa Wingate
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Wildwood Creek

Author: Lisa Wingate

Narrator: Morgan Hallett, Heather O'Neill

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2014


Synopsis

With love and loss tangled together, how was she to know where her life would lead?

Allie Kirkland has always heard the call of her father’s unfinished destiny. When she’s offered a production assistant’s job on a docudrama filming in the hills near Moses Lake, Texas, the dream of following in her director–father’s footsteps suddenly seems within reach. The reenactment of the legendary frontier settlement of Wildwood is a first step into the film industry. A summer on set in the wilderness is a small price to pay for a dream.

But in 1861, the real Wildwood held dangerous realities. Town founder Harland Delavan held helpless residents, including young Irish schoolteacher Bonnie Rose, in an iron grip. Mysterious disappearances led to myths and legends still retold in the region’s folk songs. Eventually, the entire site was found abandoned.

When filming begins, strange connections surface between Allie and the teacher who disappeared over a century ago, and everyone in Wildwood—including Blake Fulton, Allie’s handsome neighbor on the film set—seems to be hiding secrets.

Allie doesn’t know whom she can trust. If she can’t find the answers in time, history may repeat itself … with the most unthinkable results.

About Lisa Wingate

We have all heard attributes given to a certain elementary teacher or teachers when an individual attains a certain high level of success. For author, Lisa Wingate, it was her very special first grade teacher in Northboro, Massachusetts, named Mrs. Krackhardt. She saw talent in a shy little girl who had just transferred into her class. She read Lisa's stories to the class, and Lisa was hooked on the attention of an audience.

Even though writing was always a career goal, Lisa Wingate had other priorities to also accomplish. She decided to wait to pursue her writing career in earnest until she had graduated college, gotten married, held a position as a journalist and technical writer, and had children. She had wanted girls, but got two boys instead, and was immediately in love with each one.

One day when the first Wingate baby was small, Lisa's grandmother came for an extended stay visit. During that visit, her grandmother was sitting with the baby, when she began to tell Lisa the story of her life. They had interrupted the planting of flower beds to go inside to quiet the baby. It was that conversation that inspired Wingate to write the story, "Time for Tending Roses", which turned into her first mainstream novel, Tending Roses.

Today, Tending Roses, was the first of several books inspired by life and written during stolen moments of a busy mom, wife, and writer. She has said.......who knew all of that would come from a quiet afternoon with grandma and an unfinished flower bed?

Even though Tending Roses is her sentimental favorite, Lisa has treasured every book because they always begin with an inspiration from life, and she never knows where that inspiration will lead her in story.

The best thing an aspiring author can hear from a reader of their work is.......I wonder what happens next?


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on October 31, 2014

I didn't realize this was book 4 in a series, but that didn't seem to matter. It definitely stood alone. I saw this was labeled as a Christian Romance, yet the Christian elements were very minimal and the romance was hardly there. Fortunately, a friend told me that before I started it, so I was disa......more

Goodreads review by Janet on April 13, 2021

I love this story, and the whole series! Such beautiful writing! I only wish the ending of this one had lasted a bit longer and given me more insights to the characters happily ever afters.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 11, 2022

I was telling Kelsey how I hadn't found any time-slip novels that I liked and she recommend a couple by Lisa Wingate and this was one of them. I found it on Scribd and started listening. The first two-thirds of the book is good and fascinating, but they aren't action-packed. I however loved them. I f......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on March 13, 2014

In Wildwood Creek, Lisa Wingate tells the story of two women, one chasing a dream that determines her future, the other running from the nightmare of the past. Allie Kirkland wants to follow her father into the film industry. When she’s offered a job as a production assistant, she jumps at the chan......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on January 28, 2014

Ever looked at a reservoir lake and wondered what’s underneath the water? Are there complete towns, homes, farms where families were raised for generations? Are there secrets hidden beneath the water? So it is with Wildwood, a frontier settlement that came to life in the turbulent early years of the......more