A poignant breakout novel, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin
Hilderbrand, about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house
with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives
in it.
For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering
homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and
doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother.
Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a
staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with
an inhabitant: The deceased's eighty-two-year old mother Edith.
Edith has Alzheimer's--or so the doctors tell her--but she remembers
exactly how her daughter Liza could light up a room, or bring dark
clouds in her wake. And now Liza's gone, by her own hand, and Edith has
been left--like a chaise or strand of pearls--to a poorly dressed young
woman with a toddler in tow.
Maggie and Edith are both certain this arrangement will be an utter
disaster. But as summer days wane, a tenuous bond forms, and Edith, who
feels the urgency of her diagnosis, shares a secret that she's held
close for five decades, launching Maggie on a mission that might just
lead them each to what they are looking for.
