"When Cara Rutledge rents out her beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt, it's a win-win: Cara's generating income and anxiety-prone Heather, a young artist commissioned to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space to work. Then both women's summers are altered irrevocably. Heather begins to come out of the shell she's cultivated while Cara's life reels with sudden tragedy, and she wishes only to return to the beach house. When Heather refuses to budge, so begins the unlikeliest of rooming situations. While they start out as strangers, as everything around the women falls apart they learn that the only thing they can rely on is each other"--Back cover.

"When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather [Fordham] for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who's been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries sa uninterrupted. It isn't long, however, before both women's idyllic summers are altered irrevocably"--Amazon.com.