by Lisa Wingate
First published 2015
Restaurateur Whitney Monroe is on the brink of losing her business. Her only hope is the inheritance of a crumbling Gilded Age hotel on the Outer Banks. But her estranged stepfather is entrenched there, and the building's tenants are fighting to save it. Sifting through decades of family heirlooms may unlock the cash Whitney needs—if the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story don't change everything first. At its core, this is the emotional story of a woman reconnecting with her past to secure her future.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: North Carolina
448 pages · Paperback · Tyndale Fiction