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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Secrets We Left on Maple Lane: A woman returns home to uncover the truth that stole a mother's daughter-and changed them all forever.

The Secrets We Left on Maple Lane: A woman returns home to uncover the truth that stole a mother's daughter-and changed them all forever.

Hawthorne, Lucy

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798187654048
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She came home to bury her mother. She didn't expect to bury the truth too.

Claire Holloway hasn't set foot in Briar Glen in twenty years. She left for a reason. Now her mother is dead, and the town hasn't changed nearly as much as she has.

The funeral should have been the hardest part. Instead, it's what Claire finds afterward - a locked drawer, a sealed file, an envelope addressed in her mother's careful handwriting - that unravels everything she thought she knew about her family.

A young woman named Wren Parker shows up on her porch with a story that doesn't fit the one Claire grew up believing. A daughter who was never supposed to exist. A confession her mother never sent. A truth that at least three people in this town have spent decades making sure stayed buried.

As Claire pulls at the threads - an old friend's silence, a judge who won't answer questions, letters that were never delivered - she has to decide how far she's willing to go to give a stranger her family's answers, even if it means losing the version of her mother she's spent her whole life mourning.

The Secrets We Left on Maple Lane is a slow-burn novel about the lies families tell to protect themselves, the daughters who inherit them anyway, and what it costs to finally tell the truth - a story about mothers, secrets, and the homes we can't quite leave behind.

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