5.0 (1 rating)
The Caretaker: A Tale of Timeless Love
I should have listened to more than her music when Willow played the piano. I should have paid attention to all the hints she left - the things she tried to tell me about her past.
"The Caretaker" is the story of Toby Jane Jenkins, a woman who has suddenly lost the love of her life and has traveled to her love's hometown to carry out her last wishes - to have her ashes buried under the biggest magnolia tree in the grove where she had loved to play when the moon was full.
What secrets will she find in this small Mississippi town? How much did she truly understand the love to whom she is now the final caretaker?
A mysterious dark fantasy journey of discovery and timeless love by Mary R. Woldering, author of the "Children of Stone" bookseries.
"The Caretaker" is the story of Toby Jane Jenkins, a woman who has suddenly lost the love of her life and has traveled to her love's hometown to carry out her last wishes - to have her ashes buried under the biggest magnolia tree in the grove where she had loved to play when the moon was full.
What secrets will she find in this small Mississippi town? How much did she truly understand the love to whom she is now the final caretaker?
A mysterious dark fantasy journey of discovery and timeless love by Mary R. Woldering, author of the "Children of Stone" bookseries.
Reader Reviews
5.0
1 rating
Tina A.
Aug 15, 2026
#AdoptanAuthorApril
Can you ever truly know the people you love until they are gone?
The Caretaker:
This dark, sapphic tale follows Toby, whose journey feels like a quiet, internal road trip. After losing her partner, Willow, Toby travels to a small town in Mississippi to fulfill Willow’s final request.
The atmosphere here is saturated with a deep love and a heavy, quiet mystery as Toby uncovers fragments of Willow’s past that were never shared. What she discovers about Willow is so surreal. It adds a unique spin on a certain kind of legend. It’s a haunting look at that "in-between" space of grief, where the world of the living and the memories of the dead overlap—blurring the line between moving on and staying behind.