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--between her reality and the woman she wants to be--she doesn't
quite seem to fit into her own life.
But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes
away. Ellie's world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend,
Hutch, at her mother's funeral and learns that he is in charge of a
documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to
questions that Ellie's not sure she can face, until, in the painful
midst of going through her mother's things, she discovers a hidden
diary--and a window into stories buried long ago.
As Ellie and Hutch start speaking for the first time in years, Ellie's
closed heart slowly begins to open. Fighting their feelings, they set
out together to dig into Lillian'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 hearts.
Coming Up for Air is the story of one woman's search for truth--and
what happens when love steps in along the way.
