From modern-day Roanoke Island to the
sweeping backdrop of
North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA
folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an
unexpected destiny.
Restaurant owner Whitney
Monroe is desperate to save her
business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a
decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at
the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney’s
estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and
the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic
building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms
may be Whitney’s only hope of quick cash, but will the
discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story
change everything?