The
Hideaway
Lauren K. Denton
Book
Description:
After her last remaining
family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother
Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up
loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New
Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged
her with renovating it—no small task considering her grandmother’s best
friends, a motley crew of senior citizens, still live there.
Rather than hurrying back to New Orleans, Sara
stays in Sweet Bay and begins the biggest house-rehabbing project of her
career. Amid drywall dust, old memories, and a charming contractor, she
discovers that slipping back into life at The Hideaway is easier than she
expected.
Then she discovers a box Mags left in the
attic with clues to a life Sara never imagined for her grandmother. With help
from Mags’s friends, Sara begins to piece together the mysterious life of
bravery, passion, and choices that changed her grandmother’s destiny in both
marvelous and devastating ways.
When an opportunistic land developer threatens
to seize The Hideaway, Sara is forced to make a choice—stay in Sweet Bay and
fight for the house and the people she’s grown to love or leave again and
return to her successful but solitary life in New Orleans.
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5 Star Book
Review:
Sara Jenkins returns home to Sweet Bay after her eccentric
grandmother’s death, determined to tie up loose ends and then go back to her
life in New Orleans. But two things change her plans: her grandmother has willed
her the house—a B&B that has seen better days with permanent senior
residents—and she finds a box revealing her grandmother’s past in a way that
Sara could never have imagined. Sara stays on, remodeling the house (and
meeting a good-looking contractor in the process), and searching out answers to
her grandmother’s past. What she finds amazes her.
The Hideaway is a
heartfelt story of returning home and learning that you really don’t always
know the people in your life as well as you think. Sara begins to understand
her grandmother’s odd behavior as she explores her past, and also finds that
she is still in love with her childhood home, despite having run away from it
years before. It’s a sweet story that will warm your heart.
(I received an advance copy from NetGalley and the publisher
in exchange for my honest review.)
About
the Author:
Born and raised in Mobile,
Alabama, Lauren now lives with her husband and two daughters in Homewood, just
outside Birmingham. In addition to her fiction, she writes a monthly newspaper
column about life, faith, and how funny (and hard) it is to be a parent. On any
given day, she’d rather be at the beach with her family and a stack of books.
The Hideaway is her first novel. Her next novel, Hurricane Season, releases in
spring of 2018.
Find her at:
Find her at:
www.LaurenKDenton.com
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(LaurenKDentonAuthor)
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(@laurenkdenton).
