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The 2nd book in the Williamsburg series and my favorite. This series follows 2 families and their offspring from the American Revolutionary War to World War II. Yankee Stranger focuses on cousins Eden, Susannah, & Dabney Day and Lafayette & Sally Sprague and the whole family's tribulations during the Civil War. Eden meets and falls for a Yankee journalist right before the War between the States, unfortunately being from Virginia this obviously causes many problems for the family and the relationship between Eden & Cabot. An interesting perspective on the War and the people of the time.

I cannot lie, I cried more than a few tears. Beautifully written and an emotional tale of the struggles, both physically & emotionally, that this family goes through in dealing with the eldest daughter's battle with leukemia. From the mother's fight to keep her daughter alive to the youngest daughter's internal struggle with wanting to do what's right for her sister, it will keep you engaged until the end. Could not put it down.

Another or Ms. Binchy's stories where the characters are intermingled as their storylines unravel. Strangers until they all happen to converge on a restaurant in Greece and witness a tragedy in the small tourist town they are staying in. The reader is taken on a journey to find out what each of them is running from.