NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Mariah Stewart presents a
captivating contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Robyn Carr,
Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy.
As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has
never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years
of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for
swindling billions of dollars from innocent investors in a massive Ponzi
scheme. And just like that, Ellie loses everything: money, job,
home--even her fiancé, who's jailed as her father's partner in crime.
With no job prospects on the horizon, no cash, and her family name in
tatters, Ellie has only one place to go.
Sleepy St. Dennis, Maryland, is hardly where Ellie intends to stay,
however. Keeping her identity a secret, she plans to sell the house her
late mother left her in the small town and use the proceeds to move on
with her life. Unfortunately, her ticket to a new beginning is in dire
need of a laundry list of pricey improvements, many of which she'll have
to do herself. And until the house on Bay View Road is fit to be sold,
the sole place Ellie will be traveling is the hardware store. But as the
many charms of St. Dennis--not to mention Cameron O'Connor, the handsome
local contractor who has secrets of his own--begin to work their magic,
what begins as a lesson in do-it-yourself renovations might just end up
as Ellie's very own rejuvenation.
Includes a preview of the next book in the Chesapeake Diaries series,
At the River's Edge
