The Quilt She Left Behind: A Cedar Hollow Quilters Mystery

By Carrie Bartling

Some secrets are buried. Hazel Dunmore stitched hers into a quilt - and waited sixty years for someone to read it.

When Abby Vance inherits her great-aunt Margaret's remote cabin in the pines above Cedar Hollow, she's expecting one quiet week of quilting with her four closest friends. She is not expecting a sixty-year-old secret folded into the bottom of an old cedar chest.

The half-finished quilt they find isn't just beautiful. It's written. Block by block, in a code only quilters could read, a frightened young woman named Hazel Dunmore stitched the truth about what happened to her in the winter of 1965 - the year the whole town agreed to say good riddance and forget she ever lived.

As Abby and her circle follow Hazel's thread from a fallen-down line camp to the door of the most powerful family in the county, they begin to understand why Margaret guarded the quilt for six decades - and why someone in Cedar Hollow would still do almost anything to keep its last corner from ever being finished.

Some secrets are kept by burying them. Some are kept in thread, waiting for the right hands to read them at last.

The Quilt She Left Behind is the first Cedar Hollow Quilters Mystery - a warm, twisty tale of friendship, buried history, and the things we stitch into the dark so that one day they can come into the light.

Perfect for readers who love:

Clean, cozy mysteries with heart and no graphic contentQuilting, crafting, and cozy small-town settingsA circle of women who solve it togetherLong-buried family secrets and a dual-timeline revealThe start of a brand-new series to fall into

Pour the coffee, thread the needle, and come up to Cedar Hollow. The quilt remembers what the town forgot.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4GQZ9B6
• ISBN13: 9798180576347
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"