Elizabeth's Mountain - by Lucille Guarino

About the Book

Elizabeth's Mountain is about a spirited grandmother and her granddaughter, Amanda, who live together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where switching perspectives about romance interweave and unfold, and sometimes clash.

Book Synopsis

"A wonderful, moving story about love and loss, focusing on two generations: grandmother and granddaughter." -Marie W. Watts, author of the award-winning trilogy, Warriors for Equal Rights

A beloved home. Matters of the heart. Can an elderly woman find the key to saving her precious heritage?

Asheville, North Carolina. Elizabeth has a dilemma. After celebrating a milestone birthday, the feisty ninety-year-old anxiously contemplates a developer's lucrative offer for her Blue Ridge Mountain farmhouse. Worried her adult children will pressure her to sell, the lively senior recalls how her journey to this forever home began back in the 50s when she met the man who would become her husband...

Present day. Amanda yearns to stop wasting time. After ending a dead-end, three-year relationship and moving in with her spirited grandmother, the thirty-four-year-old nurse sees her dream of marriage and kids vanishing. But when she meets a handsome widower at a hospital summit, she cautiously lets down her walls.

As Elizabeth's memories take her back to when she was a hopeful young woman, she reveals how a horrific accident led to the ER and a charming doctor. While Amanda fears the worst when she overhears the enigmatic man she's fallen for talking on the phone with another woman.

Do both women's stories lead to a grand legacy and a lifetime of love?

In an emotional rollercoaster that interweaves the two women's chance at a future, their parallel romances illustrate the power of resilience and hope despite heartbreak. And as one story comes to its twilight years while the other is just beginning, readers will fall hard for this poignant inheritance of happiness.

Elizabeth's Mountain is an enchanting women's fiction novel. If you like relatable characters, dual timelines, and multi-generational romance, then you'll adore Lucille Guarino's touching tale.

Buy Elizabeth's Mountain to believe in tomorrow!

Review Quotes

2024 Millennium Book Award - Winner

2024 Literary Titan Book Award - Gold

2024 American Writing Awards Finalist - Hawthorne Prize

"A compelling slice-of-life story, told from two points of view in two different time periods." -Kirkus Reviews

"The story is poignant. The characters are strong women on the cusp of a new time for them. I loved the happiness that they were open to. I loved their strong need to help others." -Marjay's Reading Blog

"An engaging and charmingly written story that has an absorbing and life-affirming quality Elizabeth's Mountain is a novel that will have its readers lingering on its pages and reflecting on the happenstance of life." -BookViral

"Author Guarino excels in crafting a well-structured story that seamlessly navigates between two distinct timelines. Her novel's strength lies in its ability to juxtapose romantic experiences across generations, highlighting themes of love, family, and the cyclical nature of life." -Literary Titan

"Elizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino cleverly interweaves Elizabeth's twilight years with the new adult blossoming of her granddaughter Amanda. The style was smooth and the dialogue flowed naturally, creating a relaxing reading experience." -Readers' Favorite

"A wonderful, moving story about love and loss, focusing on two generations: grandmother and granddaughter." -Marie W. Watts, author of the award-winning trilogy, Warriors for Equal Rights

"An artfully crafted dual timeline story that turns out to be two romances in one book. Both parts are love stories with surprising depth of character that weave in and out of the present day and the past before finally merging the stories together." -Barbara A. Luker, author of I Carry Your Heart and The Right One

"Elizabeth's Mountain is told in the alternating voices of Elizabeth and her granddaughter, Amanda, whose distinct voices capture generations of change and whose delightful tales are more similar than either could imagine, enchanting you long past the last page." -Iris Glazner Leigh, author of Liza's Secrets

"Elizabeth's Mountain is a beautifully written uplifting story of overcoming loss and hardship and finding love. Despite the decades between them, Guarino masterfully interweaves the lives of two strong, resilient women whose stories share so much more than genetics." -Gail Dwyer, author of The Roof Above

"This novel brought me to tears as I reminisced about my relationship with my grandmother when she was the same age as Elizabeth." -Karen Cino, author of Down at the Shore

"Elizabeth's Mountain is more than just a narrative of love and romance. It is a testament to the power of hope and the beauty of finding joy in unexpected places. Prepare to fall hard for this poignant and enchanting book." -Michelle Caffrey, author of Desire in Dairyland

"Lucille Guarino is a writer to be treasured and emulated. Even us male readers eagerly await the next twist or turn." -Robert Stowe, author of The Fires of Rubicon

"I loved the dual timeline and the close bond between Elizabeth and granddaughter Amanda, and I found myself bewitched by the majestic mountain setting that the two women share." -Ruth Stevens, author of My Year of Casual Acquaintances