A conspiracy of secrets controlled Mullet Cove. As long as anyone could remember, a Parker had lived on the land beyond the lighthouse. Now it was Stoney Parker who lived there and before him, his grandfather and Maylyn. Before the Parkers, nomadic tribes passed through and moved on. But it was Stoney who finally gave up the land. Hattie Sue grew up in the shadow of the lighthouse, but even she didn't guess its secrets. Her return to the Cove when she was almost 80 drew her back into the mystery. Maylyn lived a short and tortured life, but she held the keys, keys that were buried with her in a dense palmetto thicket under a pile of coquina shells. Hattie's connection to Maylyn led her to the truth, but it also led her friend to betray her husband and thwart an Eminent Domain taking. Bruce Goodson was determined to take Stoney Parker's land but Stoney had no intention of giving it up, at least not until he met Goodson's wife, Grace. Goodson's obsession with Stoney's land reached its crescendo when Stoney agreed to sell, but not to Goodson. Ten acres of sand and palmettos tangled three families in a web that unraveled in one vicious moment.
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