title: Buglers Retreat
author: Stowe, Olivia
description: Curvy-figured Romance novelist Meghan Mason slips into the center of a twisted plot of misunderstanding, deception, and danger when, on a coincidence-driven impulse, she buys and renovates a derelict house, Bugler’s Retreat, on the Beaufort River overlooking the picturesque town of Beaufort in South Carolina.Here she gradually falls under the spell of her handsome contractor, Bill Hamilton, who is beset by his own secrets and personal interest in Bugler’s Retreat.Meghan’s uncertainties about Hamilton’s intentions and a shocking revelation ultimately propel her into a precipitous marriage to an older man, the dapper and sophisticated literary agent Donald Drake. When Drake’s grown son, Ted, appears on the doorstep of Bugler’s Retreat, the Drake household sinks into a gripping tension filled state coming to a squall point in a decrepit sailboat, dragging Meghan into the grip of the latest in a series of tragic Drake family coincidences that may not be all that coincidental.As this unfolds, Meghan discovers an attraction to the attentions of other women, which challenges her understanding of her sexuality.