★★★★★ She put every last drop of blood, sweat, and tears into her children, being the perfect wife and a stay-at-home mother for 23 years until the day he dropped a bombshell that destroyed everything. "Things couldn't get much better, in her opinion, but they most certainly could get worse!" She had always wanted to start a small catering business, but her husband Neal forbade it as he had a high-stakes job as a financial advisor to the high-net-worth client base and expected her to care for kids and home. Then, on the day of their daughter’s graduation from college, he drops a bombshell that destroys all her hopes for the future. Now, she will turn to the two women who have always been there for her ( Lexie and Ada ). When they come up with an amazing idea for her to start over on the shores of a little tourist hamlet in Florida, it doesn’t take much for her to jump at the fresh start - but not before she puts up a fight. Nothing hurts like her new reality, but at 43, can she pick up the broken pieces and find happiness again? Or will the darkness of her raging soon-to-be ex-husband be her crushing tide? A feel-good beach romance for lovers of women's fiction with heart, feel-good fiction, women's fiction suspense. This includes all books in Barefoot Bay Resort Series ( Book 1 - Book 12 )