Beneath The Willow Tree

What if the person you've hated your whole life is the key to your future?

Abigail Clayton has built a respectable life in Nashville, hiding the scars of her foster care past behind a polished PR career. When she inherits her beloved foster mother's oceanfront home, there's just one problem—she has to share it with Celeste Greenway, the difficult foster sister who made her teenage years miserable.

Celeste, abandoned at a fire station at age three, has spent her life building walls higher than the houses she constructs. The last place she wants to be is back in Seagrove, South Carolina, facing painful memories and a woman who represents everything she's not.

But there's a catch. To claim the inheritance, they must live together for three months and use the house for something good. As they reluctantly team up to help foster girls aging out of the system, old wounds reopen and shocking truths emerge from their foster mother's journals.

With a pregnant teen under their roof, a handsome pediatrician renting their front room, and secrets that could tear them apart all over again, Abigail and Celeste discover that sometimes family isn't what you're born into—it's what you build together beneath the willow tree.

A heartfelt story of second chances, found family, and healing old wounds in a charming coastal town where coming home feels like the beginning, not the end.