Key West Homecoming (A Seaside Palms Novel)

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. 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.