Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house shes inheritedone she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman shes never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybejust maybethis zWinter Cottagey will answer the endless questions about her mothers pastincluding the identity of her birth father. Rather than the quaint Virginian bungalow Lucy expected, Winter Cottage is a grand old estate of many shadowsbig enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic stranger, a man next in line to claim Lucys inheritance. Now, as Lucy sifts through the past, uncovering the legacy of secrets that Winter Cottage holds, shell come to discover as much about her family history as she does about herself. In searching, she could finally find the one thing shes never really had: a home."--Page [4] of cover.