

This novel will enchant Jio's fans and make them clamor for her next offering.ġ. fascinating exploration of love, loss, scandal, and redemption. An intoxicating blend of mystery, history and romance, this book is hard to put down.Įngaging. Sarah lives in Seattle with her husband, Jason, and three young sons. The Last Camellia and Morning Glory were both issued in 2013. Her second novel, The Bungalow, was published in December of the same year. Her first novel The Violets of March, published in April, 2011, was chosen as a Best Book of 2011 by Library Journal. She frequently tests and develops recipes for major magazines. Sarah has a degree in journalism and writes about topics that include food, nutrition, health, entertaining, travel, diet/weight loss, beauty, fitness, shopping, psychology, parenting and beyond. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition. She has written hundreds of articles for national magazines and top newspapers including Redbook, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cooking Light, Glamour, SELF, Real Simple, Fitness, Marie Claire, Hallmark magazine, Seventeen, The Nest, Health, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, The Seattle Times, Parents, Woman’s Day, American Baby, Parenting, and Kiwi.

Sarah Jio is a veteran magazine writer and the health and fitness blogger for Glamour magazine. Education-B.A., Western Washington University.In the process, she finds that she and Vera may be linked in unexpected ways. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to cover the May 1 "blackberry winter" storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. Outside, she finds his beloved teddy bear lying face-down on an icy street, the snow covering up any trace of his tracks, or the perpetrator's. She emerges to discover that a May-Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her son has vanished. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs to work the night-shift at a local hotel. With Blackberry Winter-taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon-Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels- The Violets of March and The Bungalow.
