When I reached page 300 of this novel I decided it was time to read the author biography in the back. I was shocked to find that Viola Shipman was actually a man, Wade Rouse! I'm still reeling from that one!
Adie Lou's college professor husband is a male chauvinist pig whose ongoing affair with a coed named Fuschia is the last straw. The couple is divorcing and Adie's husband tries to strong-arm her into selling her family's boat and their beloved Cozy Cottage in Saugatuck on Lake Michigan despite the fact that he has no rights to either. Instead, Adie decides at the last minute to reject the prospective buyer, restore the boat, and turn the cottage into a B&B with the help of her best friend, a lawyer, her college student son, and an old childhood friend who has returned home and taken over his father's business in Saugatuck.
This is a heart-warming story of a middle-aged woman starting a new chapter in her life, learning along the way that history and family are more important than money or social status and that sometimes second chances turn out better than anyone could have imagined.
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