num_pages: 352
description: When her grandmothers will wrenches Sara back home she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in life.After her last remaining family member dies Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway her grandmother Magss ramshackle B&amp;B in Sweet Bay Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating itno small task considering her grandmothers best friends a motley crew of senior citizens still live there.Rather than hurrying back to New Orleans Sara stays in Sweet Bay and begins the biggest house-rehabbing project of her career. Amid drywall dust old memories and a charming contractor she discovers that slipping back into life at The Hideaway is easier than she expected.Then she discovers a box Mags left in the attic with clues to a life Sara never imagined for her grandmother. With help from Magss friends Sara begins to piece together the mysterious life of bravery passion and choices that changed her grandmothers destiny in both marvelous and devastating ways.When an opportunistic land developer threatens to seize The Hideaway Sara is forced to make a choicestay in Sweet Bay and fight for the house and the people shes grown to love or leave again and return to her successful but solitary life in New Orleans.
language: English
title: The Hideaway
publisher: Thomas Nelson