Camellia Crossing
(2026)The Humorous Midlife Adventures of Nina Forester - Episodes 1 to 5
(A book in the Camellia Crossing series)
A collection of stories by Nina Potter
A newly divorced woman. A crumbling Victorian with a leaking ceiling. One dog named after a French novelist.
Nina Forester, 62, arrives in Camellia Crossing, South Carolina, with a rental truck, a forty-seven-page divorce decree, and a beagle-basset mix named Proust who judges her with more eloquence than her ex-husband ever managed.
Her late Aunt Vivian left her the house along with a note: The house needs work. So do you.
The ceiling is leaking through the dining room. The garden has staged a botanical coup. The plumber calls her sweetie. He does not do it twice.
Then Loretta arrives: next-door neighbor, uninvited casserole diplomat, and the kind of woman who asks whether you are running toward something or away from something within the first minutes of meeting you. Within a few hours, Nina has said more true things to this stranger than she said to her ex-husband in thirty-two years of marriage.
Then Macy Tan, a twenty-eight-year-old contractor who names her power tools after feminist icons and identifies structural damage the way surgeons identify symptoms. Then Frank Delacroix, the newspaper editor who once taped a grammar correction to the grocery store express lane sign with blue painter's tape so it wouldn't damage the surface. Then Polly Blanchard, who runs the Ladies' Auxiliary, the HOA, and anyone who stands still long enough.
Nina Forester spent three decades being who everyone needed her to be. She is about to find out who she actually is.
For fans of Fannie Flagg's sharp Southern heroines and the take-no-prisoners wit of Designing Women.
Tropes: Midlife reinvention • Divorce recovery • Small-town new beginning • Inherited house • Found family • Strong heroine over 60 • Southern small town • Female friendship • Slow burn romance • Humor with heart
DATA BLOCK: Heat: Kisses Only Tone: Humorous, Sharp, Emotional Series: Episodes 1 to 5 of 20 Ending: Series HEA POV: First Person, Past Tense Setting: Lowcountry South Carolina Content Notes: Divorce, ageism, identity, self-worth
Genre: General Fiction
Nina Forester, 62, arrives in Camellia Crossing, South Carolina, with a rental truck, a forty-seven-page divorce decree, and a beagle-basset mix named Proust who judges her with more eloquence than her ex-husband ever managed.
Her late Aunt Vivian left her the house along with a note: The house needs work. So do you.
The ceiling is leaking through the dining room. The garden has staged a botanical coup. The plumber calls her sweetie. He does not do it twice.
Then Loretta arrives: next-door neighbor, uninvited casserole diplomat, and the kind of woman who asks whether you are running toward something or away from something within the first minutes of meeting you. Within a few hours, Nina has said more true things to this stranger than she said to her ex-husband in thirty-two years of marriage.
Then Macy Tan, a twenty-eight-year-old contractor who names her power tools after feminist icons and identifies structural damage the way surgeons identify symptoms. Then Frank Delacroix, the newspaper editor who once taped a grammar correction to the grocery store express lane sign with blue painter's tape so it wouldn't damage the surface. Then Polly Blanchard, who runs the Ladies' Auxiliary, the HOA, and anyone who stands still long enough.
Nina Forester spent three decades being who everyone needed her to be. She is about to find out who she actually is.
For fans of Fannie Flagg's sharp Southern heroines and the take-no-prisoners wit of Designing Women.
Tropes: Midlife reinvention • Divorce recovery • Small-town new beginning • Inherited house • Found family • Strong heroine over 60 • Southern small town • Female friendship • Slow burn romance • Humor with heart
DATA BLOCK: Heat: Kisses Only Tone: Humorous, Sharp, Emotional Series: Episodes 1 to 5 of 20 Ending: Series HEA POV: First Person, Past Tense Setting: Lowcountry South Carolina Content Notes: Divorce, ageism, identity, self-worth
Genre: General Fiction
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