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The cottage was never falling down. Only the story about it was.
Emma Kendrick hasn't seen Twenty-Three Hibiscus Lane since she was a child. She has a Chicago career she never quite chose, and on a Sunday evening in May a broker calls from Florida with news that takes her life apart.
A cottage in Key West is about to be sold. The seller is her uncle Arthur. And in the file is a will, signed by her grandmother before she died, leaving the property to Emma.
The closing is in twelve days.
What Emma finds when she gets there isn't the ruin Arthur described. It's a small pink cottage with lilies along the fence, a tenant who has loved it and cared for it, and years of rent that never once reached the woman who owned it.
Stopping the sale will take a lawyer and a courthouse. But the further Emma digs into her grandmother's last years, the more she finds she was never told — a man who read aloud to Gloria every afternoon, a letter written before the illness, and two initials carved under the porch rail by a father Emma can barely remember.
She came to save a cottage. She stayed for the life she found inside it.
Genre: General Fiction
Emma Kendrick hasn't seen Twenty-Three Hibiscus Lane since she was a child. She has a Chicago career she never quite chose, and on a Sunday evening in May a broker calls from Florida with news that takes her life apart.
A cottage in Key West is about to be sold. The seller is her uncle Arthur. And in the file is a will, signed by her grandmother before she died, leaving the property to Emma.
The closing is in twelve days.
What Emma finds when she gets there isn't the ruin Arthur described. It's a small pink cottage with lilies along the fence, a tenant who has loved it and cared for it, and years of rent that never once reached the woman who owned it.
Stopping the sale will take a lawyer and a courthouse. But the further Emma digs into her grandmother's last years, the more she finds she was never told — a man who read aloud to Gloria every afternoon, a letter written before the illness, and two initials carved under the porch rail by a father Emma can barely remember.
She came to save a cottage. She stayed for the life she found inside it.
Genre: General Fiction
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