The Salt-Spray Cottage
She bought a ruin to rebuild her life. She didn't know its secrets were still standing.
At 52, architect Nora Vance's life has been professionally and personally demolished by a bitter divorce. Seeking refuge, she buys the dilapidated Salt-Spray Cottage, a lighthouse keeper's home on a tiny island off the coast of Port Blossom, Maine. She plans to use her own two hands to restore the cottage and herself along with it.
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But the cottage comes with a history the town has tried to forget, and a rival who believes its secrets belong to him. As Nora peels back layers of plaster and rot, she uncovers clues to a 100-year-old betrayal and a fortune lost to the sea. The town's powerful figures want her gone, but Nora has already lost everything once. She's not walking away from this house.
All chapters13
- 1The Bones Were Good5 min
- 2A Hand-Drawn Chart4 min
- 3What Remains5 min
- 4A Personal Interest6 min
- 5That Same Mark5 min
- 6The Trowel Struck Metal5 min
- 7He Never Asked5 min
- 8Not in My Records6 min
- 9Somebody With a Stamp6 min
- 10Not On This Map6 min
- 11The Grudge Outlived Him6 min
- 12A Common Clerical Error6 min
- 13It's a Wall, Liam6 min
