title: Grandma Takes a Lover
author: Frederick, Sue Chamblin
description: A Rita Hayworth look-alike, Adela Queen Harper is small town Ivy Log, Georgia’s most talked about grandmother. The town folk spend their time gossiping about the stunning beauty's every move. Why would such a beautiful woman live her life without a handsome man at her side? The prim ladies of The Church suspect she has a hidden lover in the upstairs bedroom of her house on Mulberry Street. More intriguing still, she disappears for at least four weeks in the fall of each year, supposedly enjoying time alone at her lake cottage. Gossip becomes even more rampant when, after forty years, handsome recluse Frank Carberry returns to the Carberry mansion on Nottely Lake. Only a short distance away from the grand house, across a white picket fence, sits Adela’s cottage, where the lovely widow tends her roses and ignores her surly neighbor. Adela and Frank's pasts surge to the surface when secrets are revealed about a love affair betwen their grandparents fifty years ago and the discovery that Adela's small cottage was their love nest. Come along with Adela and Frank as they discover it’s never too late for love or lust. “Grandma Takes A Lover” – story about two people whose romance proves that passion is ageless.