Emerald Isle, NC Stories
On the Crystal Coast of North Carolina, in the small beach town of Emerald Isle⌠Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not expecting he will set her on a journey of hope and love. The journey brings her to Luke Winters, a local art dealer, but Luke resents the woman who married his sick friend and warns her not to hurt Benâand heâs watching to make sure she doesnât. Until Ben dies and the stakes change. Framed by the timelessness of the Atlantic Ocean and the brilliant blue of the beach sky, Juli struggles against her past, the opposition of Benâs and Lukeâs families, and even the living reminder of her marriageâto build a future with hope and perhaps to find the love of her lifeâif she can survive the danger from her past.