Description: Empty nester Riva Owen faces financial struggle and pressure from her daughter to leave her beloved family home brimming with memories and a cherished library. Determined to keep the house, she opens her home to board women who need a lifestyle change, but when romantic schemes begin to brew, Riva starts to reconsider love as a possibility.
Brief description: Melody Carlson is the award-winning author of more than 250 books with sales of more than 7.5 million, including many bestselling Christmas novellas, young adult titles, and contemporary romances. She received a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, her novel All Summer Long has been made into a Hallmark movie, and the movie based on her novel The Happy Camper premiered on UPtv in 2023. She and her family live in central Oregon.