Mary Alice Monroe leaves the beach and heads for the mountains in her new novel, Time Is a River. Charleston native Mia Landan, 38, decides to spend the summer in a mountain cabin near Asheville and re-evaluate her life after her desperate struggle with breast cancer. Mia discovers the journal of Kate Watkins, a female fly fisher from the 1920s, and adopts Kate as her mentor. As Mia’s fly-fishing skills improve so does her interest in Kate and she begins an investigation into Kate’s notorious past.
