Barefoot Lake (A Wilcox Grove Story)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When her mother passes away from a long battle with cancer Alice's life is tilted on its axis. After ending her flat-lined disastrous relationship she flees Boston for the lake house her mother left behind in Wilcox Grove New Hampshire. The presence of so much </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>nature </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>all around her is jarring enough on its own but her quaint new home also seems determined to sabotage her. Alice is still floundering to figure out how to be a homeowner in the middle of the woods when she meets her surly new neighbor who seems to hate her before they've even spoken.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jake Preston has lived in Wilcox Grove nearly his entire life where he prefers to keep mostly to himself. His quiet sanctuary is aggressively disturbed by the hurricane of a woman who moves in next door seemingly determined to completely destroy the home of somebody he considered a dear friend. Prickly on his best day Jake is not about to play friendly neighbor to the menace who has come to town to turn everything upside down.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barefoot Lake is a small-town open-door grumpy/sunshine romance about opening up and redefining success and happiness.</span></p>