The Wexley Inn

A dilapidated historic inn. A dream thirty years in the making. And the one man she swore she'd never see again.

At fifty-two, Isabella Montgomery walks away from her luxury hotel career, cashes in her retirement, and buys a crumbling historic inn on a private South Carolina island she fell in love with as a young woman. This is her last great chapter. Her own name above the door. A life she built herself, with no one's approval required. She has a ticking clock, a bank loan, and a December 31st deadline. What she doesn't have is a plan for what happens when the only approved restoration contractor on the island turns out to be Thomas Langley — the man who walked out of her life thirty years ago without a word.

Thomas never stopped thinking about her. A widower. A father. A contractor who knows every joist and every whisper on Wexley Island. He agreed to the job because he couldn't not. And now he's standing in the foyer of a 150-year-old inn beside the only woman he ever really loved, swearing they can keep this professional. Neither of them believes it for a second.

Then a ruthless local developer decides the inn belongs in his pocket — and starts quietly weaponizing island bureaucracy to grind Isabella's permits to dust. Her deadline slips. Her loan is suddenly in jeopardy. And while Thomas works behind the scenes to protect her in ways she didn't ask for, Isabella begins quietly planning her own escape route to Paris. Two people who once lost each other over a secret are about to do it again — unless they can finally learn to stop protecting each other and start trusting each other.

Welcome to Wexley Island. Welcome to the Lowcountry Ladies Club — where the sweet tea is strong, the gossip is stronger, and every woman has a story worth saving.

A beautifully emotional Southern romance about starting over at fifty, finding your way home, and the quiet courage it takes to love someone for the second time.