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2016 Christy Award Finalist (Contemporary novel category) From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina�s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt�s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina�s Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney�s estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney�s only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?