No one is allowed to touch the "slush pile". But one day when Jen sits at her deck, she notices pages from a manuscript from the untouchable "slush pile". First she panics, then calms herself, but she feels as though someone put it there to get her into trouble for in this business there are many a Brutus. As the day slowly passes by, her temptation pushes her to start reading the manuscript. When reading the story of Sarra, a young woman of mixed race in the Appalachian mountains, it brings back sad memories for Jen, for she was born and raised there. She remembers the tales she was told of the strange people of mixed races who lived in parts of Appalachia.

Jen is happy with her new life in New York and her new position at Vida House Publishing. She wants to leave her terrible upbringing and family behind her and lock it away in her head, but the owner of Vida House has other ideas. He sends Jen on a journey to find the rest of the manuscript, to find out if it's true or false, to find the author alive or dead.

Jen is not happy about going home to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and when she arrives she tries to keep her distance from her family. After doing some research Jen believes she knows the name and location of the author. In fact, he's a famous author of shape shifter novel series and low and behold, Jen arrives just when the tourists are all camped out paying homage to the author and his shape shifter series!

When Jen discovers that Evan Hall is the author of the shape shifters series and gets little tidbits from others who live in the area, especially Evan's aunt, Jen finds a way to make contact with Evan who lives in a beautiful mansion in the Blue Ridge Mountains by Mirror Lake. Many of his followers who have read the shape shifters series believe there are portals that will take them through time, to the past, to the future as he had written in his novels. Surrounding his property are acres of land with high fences to keep out the weird followers, and that's another way Jen finds her way up to Evans house. Evan's aunt told Jen that her nephew could be very rude and nasty. Well will Jen find out his good side or bad or both?

THE STORY KEEPER has to be the best book read I've read in two years. It's heart warming, a story within a story, love that blooms from within and without. Characters are plenty, some funny some way too serious and behind the times. As if time stands still for many in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I say, "WHOAH" to Lisa Wingate author of THE STORY KEEPER. A recommended read! What an amazing read!

THE STORY KEEPER is a definte keeper and reread.

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