It was a long trip back to Edisto Island, South Carolina, and the beach house that shaped so much of Mary Helen Avery's early life.
Now her mind flashed between anger and hurt over the difficult situation she'd left behind at the job she loved.
Was she doing the right thing to leave? Should she have stayed to fight? She hoped at the quiet, beloved island she knew so well, she'd find the answers she needed and peace from all this turmoil.
's heart took a familiar lurch whe.
