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The Glassmaker’s Secret
A Winter Solstice in Estonia
The Glassmaker’s Secret
A legacy lost in wartime. A hunt for the truth.
What she finds in the winter woods will change everything.
The Glassmaker’s Secret is a dual-timeline novel steeped in mystery, romance, and a luminous holiday landscape, where past and present collide across generations. Ava Kallas arrives in Estonia determined to find a secret that her grandfather took to his grave. Decades earlier, a young boy struggles to survive World War II in a country torn apart by occupation, his fate bound to a craft as delicate as it is enduring.
As Ava weaves together clues from the past, her present begins to unravel: an unsettling proposal, a failing business, a shattering betrayal. A love she’s no longer sure she can trust—and another she’s desperately trying to resist. On Christmas Eve, past and present converge, and Ava makes a shocking discovery that lays bare the past—and rewrites her future.
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Laura Rowley grew up with ten siblings in an Irish-American family, where the best way to win the room was to tell a good tale. At age 11 she won a prize in a poetry contest, and it was off to the races: newspaper reporter, magazine editor, TV producer, digital jack-of-all-trades, and fintech executive. An award-winning journalist, Laura previously published seven non-fiction books, and her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Gannett, Money, Parents, Self, and other media. The Glassmaker’s Secret is her first novel.
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