Where the Light Finds You

Eleanor Calloway swore she would never return to Willowbrook. Ten years ago she packed her mother's grudging silence and Declan's unasked questions into a suitcase and drove south, certain that leaving was the only way to survive. Now, with her mother Margaret confined to a hospital bed and the family estate slipping into disrepair, Eleanor has no choice but to come home to the salt-bright coastal town she fled. The homecoming becomes infinitely more complicated the moment she steps onto Ashford land. Declan is no longer the boy who used to wait for her on the Calloway pier, he is the brooding head of a fractured family, guardian to his sister Lily Margaret, and the man the town credits, or blames, for the slow unraveling of two intertwined families. Mayor Helene Pruitt watches Eleanor's return with the polite interest of someone who keeps everyone's secrets catalogued. Tess Bellamy, once a confidante, is now a careful stranger. And Richard Harmon, the man Eleanor was supposed to marry, is suddenly very interested in why she's finally back. As Eleanor sorts through ledgers, letters, and the slow work of caring for her mother, old alliances surface and old wounds reopen. The truth of what really happened the summer she left will not stay buried, and neither will the question of whether Declan can ever forgive her, or whether Eleanor has the courage to stay. This time, the only way forward means facing what she left behind.