Patti Callahan Henry
On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...,Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband â€“ between her reality and the woman she wants to be â€“ she doesnâ€™t quite seem to fit into her own life. But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellieâ€™s world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her motherâ€™s funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellieâ€™s not sure she can face, until, in the painful midst of going through her motherâ€™s things, she discovers a hidden diary â€“ and a window onto stories buried long ago. ,As Ellie and Hutch start speaking for the first time in years, Ellieâ€™s closed heart slowly begins to open. Fighting their feelings, they set out together to dig into Lillianâ€™s history. Using both the diary and a trip to the Summer House, a mysterious and seductive bayside home, they gamble that they can work together and not fall in love again. But in piecing together a decades-old unrequited-love story, they just might uncover the secrets in their own heartsâ€¦
Fiction,Romance,Womens Fiction,Chick Lit,Womens Fiction,American,Southern,Contemporary,Adult Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Audiobook,Relationships
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