02571cam a2200469 i 4500 300808762 TxAuBib 20170811120000.0 170509s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017022716 9781432840693 143284069X (OCoLC)983826031 TxAuBib rda Monroe, Mary Alice. Beach house for rent / Mary Alice Monroe. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017. ℗2017. 549 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Beach house ; 4 Thorndike Press large print basic series When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who's been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted. It isn't long, however, before both women's idyllic summers are altered irrevocably: the alluring shorebirds -- and the man who rescues them -- begin to draw Heather out of the shell she's cultivated toward a world of adventure, and maybe even love; at the same time, Cara's life reels with sudden tragedy, and she wishes only to return to the beach house that had once been her port amidst life's storms. When Heather refuses to budge from her newfound sanctuary, so begins the unlikeliest of rooming situations. While they start out as strangers, as everything around the women falls apart they learn that the only thing they can really rely on is each other. 20170811. Rental housing Fiction. Women painters Fiction. Social phobia Fiction. Panic disorders Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Vacation homes Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Large type books. Isle of Palms (S.C.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Beach house ; 4. Thorndike Press large print basic series. TXMML