From the bestselling creator of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman’s journey to find the hidden stories of her circle of relatives’s seaside resort.
When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow.
Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s fatherland of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her circle of relatives’s beachfront cottage upon her grandmother’s death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the most productive friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago.
But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend—and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons within the closet than just her own. Amid the cottage’s clutter are clues from her grandmother’s past on the enchanting seaside resort her circle of relatives once owned. One fateful summer in 1950, the arrival of a dazzling singer shook the workforce and guests alike—and not everyone made it to fall.
As Ivy contends with broken relationships and a burgeoning romance within the present, the past threatens to brush her away. But as she uncovers the strength of her grandmother and the women who came before her, she realizes she is like the legendary shipwreck: the sands would possibly shift around her, but she has found her home here by the sea.
