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Cover of a book called the Dala Horse Daughters with three women on the front

The Cost of Secrecy


One Woman's Desperate Bid for
Redemption

The Long Shadow of First Love

Black illustration of a Dala Horse

Coming

November 2026

In 1970s small-town Minnesota, Ronja is determined to raise her daughter, Ulla, far from the con artist life she fled in Sweden, but the past refuses to stay buried.​

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Ulla, hungry for truth and belonging, finds refuge and love with the town’s outcast, Linnea. That is until Linnea's single act of betrayal shatters their lives and sets a devastating chain of events in motion.

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Nearly two decades later, when Ulla's daughter, Analise, falls for Linnea's son, they find themselves caught in the shadow of a secret their mothers never dared to speak.

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Now terminally ill and running out of time, Linnea must reckon with the consequences of her actions. Her only hope for atonement is to give Ulla the truth she was denied—a truth bound to a past that Ronja fought to bury, beginning with a long-forgotten Swedish Dala horse.

 

What Linnea uncovers will bind the two families in ways none of them could have imagined, forcing them to confront whether love can survive betrayal and whether forgiveness can ever be earned.

 

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