One More Summer

Grace has taken care of her widowed father her entire adult life and the

ornery old goat has finally died. She has no job, no skills and very little

money, and has heard her father's prediction that no decent man would ever

want her so often she accepts it as fact.

But she _does_ have a big old house on Lawyers Row in Peacock, Tennessee. She

opens a rooming house and quickly gathers a motley crew of tenants: Promise,

Grace's best friend since kindergarten, who's fighting cancer; Maxie, an aging

soap opera actress who hasn't lost her flair for the dramatic; Jonah, a sweet,

gullible old man with a crush on Maxie.

And Dillon, Grace's brother's best friend, who stood her up on the night of

her senior prom and has regretted it ever since. Dillon rents Grace's guest

house for the summer and hopes to make up for lost time and past hurts—but

first, he'll have to convince Grace that she's worth loving...

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