“This was a sweet-hearted book I enjoyed a lot. The heroine has never had anything somebody didn't try to take away from her--and that somebody was usually her mother. Except for her grandmother. Her grandmother loves her unconditionally, and the heroine would do anything for her Nana. Like give up her dream of teaching school to come home and help support her after her grandfather dies. They've been struggling along from one minimum wage job to the next, until she gets a letter that she's inherited something out in the barren wilds of west Texas, not too far from Lubbock. (Barren wilds indeed.) Her luck's invariably bad, so she refuses to believe the inheritance is real, or is anything she'll get to keep, but they pack up and go anyway. One place is as good as another. The property turns out to be an old bait-camp store/deli sort of place that is the center of the run-down Twisted Creek "lake development." And as the heroine and her Nana begin to create a community out of the eccentrics who live at the lake, other things begin happening. There is a suspense element, but it's mild. This is just a lovely, contemporary Jodi Thomas book. I liked it a lot.”