Love, Sophie. Inn at Sunset Harbor (Portuguese). #bk. 1

Read by Jo Pratta

Emily Mitchell, 35, lives and works in New York City, and has suffered a series of failed relationships. When her boyfriend seven years ago invites her to their long-awaited dating anniversary dinner, Emily is certain that this time will be different, that now he will finally give her a wedding ring. When instead he gives her a miniature scent, Emily realizes the time has come to break up with him - and start her life from scratch. Moving away from her unsatisfying, stressful life, Emily decides she needs to change. She impulsively decides to drive to her father's abandoned house on the coast of Maine, a large, historic house where she had spent magical summers as a child. But the long-abandoned house is in bad shape, and winter had barely begun. Emily hadn't been in the house for 20 years when a tragic accident changed her sister's life and shattered her family. Her parents divorced, her father disappeared, and Emily never set foot in that house again. Now, for some reason, with her reeling life, Emily is drawn to the one place in her childhood she has ever known. She plans to spend just one weekend to cool her head. But something about the house, its many secrets, its memories of its father, its seaside allure, its small-town mood - and, most of all, its beautiful and mysterious caretaker - doesn't want to let her go. Can she find the answers she's been looking for here in the most unlikely place? Can a weekend become a lifetime?

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