Cooper's Charm

Phoenix Rose once had a fiancé, a successful store and a full, contented life. Then a burglary took her confidence, and she spent months drifting. Now she has taken a job at Cooper's Charm, a lakeside resort, hoping to find her footing again.

The setting helps. The scenery is lovely, her colleagues are friendly, and her boss is a charismatic widower. Phoenix is easing back into the world one small step at a time.

Her sister Ridley arrives to check on her younger sibling and, on impulse, agrees to cover as the resort's housekeeper. Ridley is still smarting from a divorce that bruised her ego. She discovers she enjoys doing the work well, and she draws the notice of the resort's good-looking scuba instructor.

Both women see the stay as a stopgap. This is a contemporary women's fiction and romance story following two sisters, with a warm tone and a gentle pace built around recovery and second chances. What remains open is whether a temporary post at the water's edge can become the place each of them has been missing.