title: Beacon of Love
author: Roberts, Ann
description: Older and wiser, it should have been easy to go home...
  
  Twenty-five years ago Stephanie left beautiful Eugene, Oregon, and her beautiful best friend behind. She also left behind her parents' bitter warfare and the truth that her feelings for Paula weren't about friendship. Meeting again after all these years, Stephanie is more certain that ever that she will always love Paula.
  
  As Paula copes with the loss of her mother, family secrets and bigotry unravel around her, leaving Stephanie the one guiding light in her life. Finally, she can see where their undeniable closeness could lead. But when she reaches out, Stephanie's family pulls her away, leaving them both far from any safe shore.
  
  Ann Roberts' (Root of Passion, Beach Town) romantic story set under the guiding light of America's most famous lighthouse follows two women and their search for home.