A Field Guide to Staying

Emilia Summers left Cairnlee at twenty-two and never looked back. A phone call about her grandmother's fractured hip drags her home to a crumbling lighthouse, a heritage project her grandmother secretly funded, and Archie Hammond, the guarded architect restoring it. Emilia is hired to paint the headland's wildflowers. She isn't planning to stay. But a council chair wants the lighthouse gone, her mother is coming back after ten years, and a London gallery wants an answer within the week.