The House on Mountain Laurel Lane
A widow and mom of two struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future in a powerful novel about friendship, love, and taking risks by New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge.
Ever since her husband Sean’s death, Jo Myers just can’t move on. Until she receives a video Sean made during his final days, urging her to find happiness after he’s gone. Jolted from her rut, she embarks on a journey forward.
Her first step is buying a house she and her daughters can call home. Framed by the snowcapped peaks of the Sierra Nevada, it’s the very house she and Sean dreamed of owning together one day. It comes with a kindly and elderly resident lodger and an opportunity to make new memories. Jo even dips her toes into the dating pool. With the support of her friends, who call themselves the Tattooed Ladies, she is determined to honor her husband’s last wish. Even as reality comes crashing down again.
When everything she holds dear is threatened, Jo draws on her newfound strength and the power of friendship to finally find her way to the other side of grief and embrace whatever the future may hold.
Book 2 of 2: Gold Creek
Author Reviews of “The House on Mountain Laurel Lane”:
Another beautiful book by Eileen Goudge, who is one of my absolute favorite authors of women’s fiction. She has such a way of writing characters with real emotions and stakes that makes you forget they aren’t real people. In this novel, a grieving woman receives a message left by her dead husband urging her to move forward with her life. What follows is a beautiful story of found friendship, mother, a hint of romance and so much more. I absolutely loved the way she wrote daughters Emma and Jess. They were so adorable and their issues in the aftermath of losing their father was so believable. I look forward to many more novels from Eileen Goudge! – Meredith Schorr
Returning to Gold Creek for book two in the Gold Creek series was like stopping in to see good friends in a place you’ve grown to love. It takes an exceptional author to wield that kind of power in a world of make-believe. Goudge skillfully guides her readers through grief, acceptance, and a possible second chance at love, while reminding us of the power of friendship and trust with characters who are so real that they breathe life onto the page. While some books rush to the ending, The House on Mountain Laurel Lane continues to ramp up the tension, culminating in a wonderfully satisfying conclusion. Can’t wait for the third book in this series. — Barbara Conrey author of “A Fine Layer of Dust”
The House on Mountain Laurel Lane is everything I love about Eileen Goudge’s novels: prose that pulls you in, layered characters, and a setting you could drive to tomorrow. In the “someday” dream home she and her late husband envisioned but never shared, Jo Myers is reminded of how quickly what we love can slip from our grasp. The final, suspenseful chapters deliver the deeply satisfying exhale I crave in contemporary fiction. If you enjoy character-driven novels about second chances, the ties that keep us, and the importance of home, this one’s for you. Perfect for fans of Robyn Carr’s Virgin River.
“The House on Mountain Laurel Lane is everything I love about Eileen Goudge’s novels: prose that pulls you in, layered characters, and a setting you could drive to tomorrow.”—Julie Valerie, bestselling author of Holly Banks of Full of Angst “
In the ‘someday’ dream home she and her late husband envisioned but never shared, Jo Myers is reminded of how quickly what we love can slip from our grasp.”—Julie Valerie, bestselling author of Holly Banks of Full of Angst
“The final, suspenseful chapters deliver the deeply satisfying exhale I crave in contemporary fiction.”—Julie Valerie, bestselling author of Holly Banks of Full of Angst
“If you enjoy character-driven novels about second chances, the ties that keep us, and the importance of home, this one’s for you.”—Julie Valerie, bestselling author of Holly Banks of Full of Angst
“Perfect for fans of Robyn Carr’s Virgin River.”—Julie Valerie, bestselling author of Holly Banks of Full of Angst
