When Maggie Devereux returns home from errands to find an unexpected eviction notice, everything falls apart. Her husband is nowhere to be found and his things are missing too. Confused and panicked, the forty-something hairdresser packs her valuable and drags her children to a motel. Then, while digging through a box of long-forgotten financial records, she discovers a timely surprise: her great aunt's last will and testament. An abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of town left in Maggie's name. But it's a wreck. Unlivable, dangerous, and full f haunting family secrets. Still, Maggie refuses to spend one more night in the motel. So when she bumps into Rhett Houston, an old friend, she asks for his help. Luckily for both of them, he needs a fresh start too, even if it means sharing a ramshackle farmhouse with Maggie and her kids. Will Maggie and Rhett finish the project and go their separate ways? Or can friends become more under the right circumstances?
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Hickory Grove ; [3] Bromke, Elizabeth, Hickory Grove ; 03.
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