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All That Travels Forward
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Cristel Buck
Published: Sep 19 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
All That Travels Forward
Seventeen-year-old Clara Murray never wanted this summer. Exiled to her grandmother's crumbling beach house on the Florida Gulf Coast while her parents' marriage falls apart hundreds of miles away, she arrives with one plan: count the days until she can go home.
The tide has other ideas.
Between porch-swing mornings, a small-town bakery that smells like nowhere she's ever been and somewhere she has, and a boy named Ethan, Clara starts noticing things she can't explain. A taste she shouldn't recognize, a language she's never spoken, a scar in an old photograph that sits in the exact place she's carried a birthmark her whole life. And as a hurricane gathers strength offshore, so are the echoes of a past that was never supposed to be hers.
An ocean and a century away, a girl named Hanna once believed her world began and ended at her father's bakery, but that changed with a war, a devastating loss, and a ticket that sent her away to build a new life. She carried everything she'd lost alongside all she found. A hundred years later, one small piece of her would still be waiting for someone to finally recognize it.
As the summer comes to an end, Clara will have to decide what she's willing to hold onto, and what it means to be handed a story that was never hers to carry.
All That Travels Forward is a novel about grandmothers and granddaughters, first loves, the ones who came before us, and the quiet, stubborn ways that love outlives the people who gave it-even when it has to cross an ocean, or a century, to find where it belongs.
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