Everyone said the old house was too far gone. Lucky for it, Jen Marsh knows the feeling. So does the eighty-one-year-old next door. Newly divorced and ready for a change, Jen takes a drive up the Maine coast and lands in Lobster Bay, the little town where she spent her happiest childhood summers. And there on the bluff sits the Captain Perkins house, the grand old Victorian she adored as a girl... one town vote away from a bulldozer. So Jen does the craziest thing she’s ever done. She buys it. Sure, the porch sags. Fine, there’s a crack in the foundation. And yes, the head of the historical society would rather see the place flattened than approve so much as a paint color. But Jen’s got help: a plainspoken handywoman in overalls, a handsome, stubborn craftsman who’s convinced she’s up to something (and is proving very hard not to notice), and her new favorite neighbor Pearl, sharp as a tack, written off by everybody, and having the time of her life proving that she remembers everything about that old house.
