Emerald Heart

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to The Emerald Heart Hotel</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - The sign on the big gate is faded and the gate is usually locked because the hotel closed two years ago when Mignon King lost her husband. His death on top of the loss of their daughter many years before has Mignon mired in grief. But it's more than grief that has her trapped. Before she can move on she must decide what to do with the hotel she and her husband owned and managed for more than two decades. She lives there alone with her dog Galahad though even Mignon would hardly call it </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>living</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. She wants to be happy again to find a new way forward but she's stuck. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her longtime friend Dominick a real estate agent wants her to sell the hotel property. Old hotel aside the acreage alone in the town of Emerald Isle and fronting on Bogue Sound is valuable and will bring many offers but that's also part of the problem. Mignon loves the Emerald Heart property and feels responsible for it and wants to protect her husband's memory. What might new owners do with the property? What might they destroy?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a strange day in early September a man shows up unexpectedly on her dock. He's charming. And he's interested in the Emerald Heart property. On that same day her long-estranged sister-in-law Jeanette returns and Mignon's troubles magnify as Jeannette's arrival stirs up old anger and creates a volatile emotional mix. Disquieting things begin to happen around the property worrying Mignon. She knows she must make a decision but she doesn't know how to break with the past and move forward.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dominick Blake Jeanette</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-who stands to gain if Mignon decides to sell? </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Who can she trust?</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And the past</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> . . . </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>its hold on her is so strong that she's not even sure she can trust herself.</em></p><p><br></p>