A NOVEL ABOUT FINDING REFUGE IN AN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD

Everyone thinks Adele Walker is crazy to have bought a sight-unseen beach house on Sanibel Island, but something about the barrier island she visited as a child still has a hold on her. After convincing her husband to go along with her plan, the empty nesters sell their house up north and head to Florida’s Gulf Coast, hoping to catch life’s second wind.

When they arrive, the dilapidated house on stilts isn’t what they expected. Adele fears she made a horrible mistake until she is given her mother’s Bible. In it are letters her mother wrote to God back when she once visited the same island. Soon, the wonders of the sanctuary island—from its birds to its seashells to the treasures found in God’s Word—minister to Adele in extraordinary ways.

WOULD SHE RATHER LIVE LIKE AN AGING WOMAN OF THE WORLD WITH MOST OF LIFE BEHIND HER, OR A DAUGHTER OF GOD WITH ALL OF ETERNITY AHEAD?

As Adele at last begins writing the novel she has always dreamed of, the line between memory and reality slowly fades, leaving readers to question whether the neighbor next door is real—or connected to a lingering regret from the past: the friend she never found the courage to tell about God’s love when it mattered the most.