Re-Release
I’m thrilled to announce that I re-released THE UNION STREET BAKERY, SWEET EXPECTATIONS, AT THE CORNER OF KING STREET and THE VIEW FROM PRINCE STREET. Each novel can now be found in the Amazon Kindle store for $3.99 each. In these four full length novels you’ll meet Daisy, Addie, Rae, and Lisa who are all from families tied together for centuries in historic Alexandria, Virginia.
Release Date for The Promise of Tomorrow
Read it on 5-14-24! From the author of the Amazon Charts Bestseller THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT comes the moving story about one woman’s reason for leaving home and the love that brings her back. When heroine Olympia who returns home after a year of traveling to finalize...
Also by Mary Ellen
Libby McKenzie is adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages. When asked to photograph a greenhouse at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner Elaine Grant. Beneath the vines of the old greenhouse lie generations of secrets, and it’s up to Libby to tend to the fruits born of long-buried seeds.
Meet Mary Ellen
A southerner by birth, Mary Ellen Taylor’s love of her home state, Virginia, is evident in her contemporary women’s fiction, including Winter Cottage , Spring House and her latest Honeysuckle Season. All three are set in her beloved Virginia. Earlier she celebrated Alexandria and its storied history in her books The Union Street Bakery, Sweet Expectations, , At the Corner of King Street, The View from Prince Street.
As do so many people, her protagonists search for their place in the world, exploring issues of family, home, love and belonging. Inevitably, Mary Ellen’s stories entwine with those of the places in which they’re set, and the mysteries at their core span past and present.
Recipes from my books & my kitchen
Megan’s Easy Buttermilk Pie
Pies of all kinds are Megan's specialty and a favorite among the Spring House restoration team. First priority? It has to be delicious. Second? It has to be easy and quick to make. There's not a whole lot of prep time to go around between a new baby on the way, the...
As American as Old Town Apple Pie
Yes, it's time for me to go into high gear with my baking and other prep for Thanksgiving Day! The holiday always makes me competitive with my favorite frenemy---me! I love to bake and cook, but like so many of us, despite years of success, I go right ahead and worry...
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Recipes from my books & my kitchen
Megan’s Easy Buttermilk Pie
Pies of all kinds are Megan's specialty and a favorite among the Spring House restoration team. First priority? It has to be delicious. Second? It has to be easy and quick to make. There's not a whole lot of prep time to go around between a new baby on the way, the...
As American as Old Town Apple Pie
Yes, it's time for me to go into high gear with my baking and other prep for Thanksgiving Day! The holiday always makes me competitive with my favorite frenemy---me! I love to bake and cook, but like so many of us, despite years of success, I go right ahead and worry...