Publisher's Synopsis
Also by the author: When the Mourning Dove Calls
Return to Mystic Hills
Professional photographer Charley Rainer is no stranger to life's difficulties. Abandoned by her mother after her father's death, eight-years old Charley went to live with her aunt in New Jersey. Twenty years later, she's abandoned again, this time by a cheating husband. As Charley mulls her future plans, sans husband, a letter arrives to inform her that Annabelle Travis has left her a beach house on an obscure island off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Who is Annabelle Travis? Charley's father was from South Carolina, but Charley has no connection to his family. Charley travels to Charleston, anxious to learn about a family she never knew. Turtle Island is the perfect place for a photographer like Charley to hide out while she re-evaluates her life. She loves the weathered beach house that holds the echoes of past generations of her family. As she connects to the past, blank spaces in her life begin to fill in But it's the new connection she makes that is the most life changing. Charley isn't interested in romance, but she can't help noticing the handsome attorney, Alex, who owns a beach house next-door. He's very friendly, always around, and ready to assist his new neighbor. Charley begins to wonder how a corporate attorney has so much free time to spend at the beach. Is his helpfulness just Southern hospitality, or is it something more? Charley finds the answer at Alex's beach house. The discovery shatters their friendship, but sets Charley on a path that will change her life in a way she could never have imagined.
