The Inn on Beacon Road: A Planet Rodanthe Novel

She can buy almost anything. The one place she needs isn't for sale. At forty, Amanda Willis has just sold her company for more money than she can quite feel. A daughter she barely sees. A life optimized to the minute. And a restlessness no deal has ever touched. So she does the one thing she's been too busy for: she calls an old inn on a thin strip of sand off the Carolina coast - the inn where, a lifetime ago, her mother went to close a door and instead found herself. The Inn on Beacon Road is not for sale. Roan Midgett, its weathered, unhurried proprietor, tells her so in two words. But Amanda hasn't been back to Rodanthe since her mother's funeral, and something in her has been circling this island for months without a name. She comes anyway. For a conversation, she tells herself. No agenda. What she finds is a house the whole village once moved to save, a man who remembers exactly who she was at seventeen, and the question this island has asked its people for a hundred years: what do you keep, what do you give away - and how do you learn the difference before it's too late? A sweeping, deeply felt novel about legacy, belonging, and the places that keep us - set on the same windswept island as The Off-Season and The Keeping Season. Also on Kindle - free with Kindle Unlimited.