The secret of Emerald Cottage
(Book)

Molly Stewart -- ex-Navy nurse and former evidence technician for the Charleston Police Department -- has been burned by love. So when her friend, Pastor Chase Griffin, begs her to move to scenic Lake Loon to be a nurse and companion for Miss Lilly, his elderly landlady, she jumps at the chance. The secluded and cozy cottage on a clear mountain lake seems the perfect place to heal from her fianc'̌s betrayal as well as indulge in one of her greatest passions -- cozy romances. First with reading them by the bookcase and then hopefully, if dreams come true, writing and solving them one day as an author and detective. But when Miss Lilly's estranged great nephew shows up, it's no mystery as to why he and Molly butt heads. Because it only takes one stolen kiss -- while she's sleeping, no less -- to discover he's an even bigger player than the ex-fianc w̌ho broke her heart.