Key Lime Garden Inn (Captiva Island #1)

Sometimes the life you never planned is exactly the one you need.

After her husband's sudden death reveals a web of betrayals she never saw coming, Maggie Wheeler flees her picture-perfect Massachusetts life for the healing shores of Captiva Island, Florida. What begins as a week-long escape to visit her best friend becomes something more when Maggie wanders through an open garden gate and meets Rose Johnson Lane, an elderly woman whose island estate holds decades of secrets.

When Rose passes away, she leaves Maggie an unexpected legacy—and an invitation to restore the historic Key Lime Garden Inn. Armed with Rose's journals, a borrowed book of wisdom from a famous writer who once walked these same beaches, and her own newfound courage, Maggie must decide: return to the life she knew, or embrace an entirely different future on an island that feels like home?

As Maggie navigates her children's struggles with their father's hidden life, her own awakening to new possibilities, and the gentle attention of a certain Italian gardener, she discovers that sometimes we must lose everything we thought we wanted to find who we're meant to be.

The Key Lime Garden Inn is a luminous novel about second chances, the bonds between women across generations, and the courage it takes to bloom again—no matter what season of life you're in.