Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a
lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned
lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she jumps at the chance to escape her small town to oversee its
restoration.
As the work begins, 'Joey' discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the old stone walls--pages
torn from a lighthouse keeper's log signed by someone named Mae who recounts harrowing rescues at sea.
Fascinated by a woman lighthouse keeper, Joey digs into the past only to discover there's never been a record
of a lighthouse keeper by that name.
When things start to go amiss on the island, locals are convinced that it is the ghost of the lighthouse keeper and
his daughter who were lost at sea during World War II. As Joey sifts through decades of rumors and legends
and puts together the pieces of the past, what emerges is a love story--one that's not over yet.
Multiple Christy Award winner Amanda Cox is your guide upon the raging seas of young love, heartbreaking
loss, and learning to risk it all for a chance at happiness in this timeless novel.
Beekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream, until her father’s untimely death sent her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family apiary—one who is looking to sell the property—and she cannot fathom why her father would put her in the position to lose everything they built together.
When Callie Peterson is named in the trust of a man she’s never heard of, she’s not sure what to do. Her fledgling business has just taken wing and her mother has reentered her life asking for help, making Callie’s financial situation rather … precarious. She’s sure she has no right to someone else’s farm, but the money from the sale could solve her problems and give her the stability she’s always craved.
With an entangled past behind them and an uncertain future ahead, Beckett and Callie must discover why they’ve been thrown together before all is lost.
Present day. Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home, determined to finally follow her dream of running the family business alongside her mother and grandmother. So when her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that Old Depot Grocery is closing, Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a plan to save the store. But Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter never follows in her footsteps. She has her reasons-but she'll certainly never reveal the real one. 1965. Glory Ann confesses to her family that she's pregnant with her deceased fiancé's baby. Pressured into a marriage of convenience with a shopkeeper to preserve her family's reputation, Glory Ann vows never to love again. But some promises are not as easily kept as she imagined. This dual-time story from Amanda Cox deftly explores the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship, the way the secrets we keep shape our lives and the lives of others, and the healing power of telling the truth.
When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing. Twenty-four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for the baby runs up against the stark fact that he is homeless. When he becomes entwined with two people seeking to help him find his way, Harvey knows he must keep the baby a secret or risk losing the only person he's ever loved. In this dual-time story from debut novelist Amanda Cox, the truth--both the search for it and the desire to keep it from others--takes center stage as Ivy and Harvey grapple with love, loss, and letting go.
