Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure

Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husbands appeal for divorce. Its Ellies opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. Shes taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Doraeach needing escapeimpulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France. With the Rhne surging beside them, they have nowhere to be and everywhere to go. Until the Bentley breaks down in the inviting fishing hamlet of Saint Benet. Here, Ellie rents an abandoned villa in the hills, makes wonderful friends among the villagers, and finds herself drawn to Nico, a handsome and enigmatic fisherman. As for unexpected destinations, the simple paradis of Saint Benet is perfect. But fates soon change when the threat of war encroaches. Ellies second act in life is just beginningand becoming an adventure she never expected.