The Summer of Second Chances (Book 1 Gingercake Mountain)

After catching her husband at a seedy motel with another woman 54-year-old therapist Maggie Mitchell watches her carefully constructed life implode—on camera. When a viral video of her parking lot confrontation destroys her reputation as a relationship expert Maggie faces a cascade of canceled appointments lost speaking engagements and a marriage in ruins. Worse yet her husband Greg claims she's the one who's been lying—about a secret that could shatter their daughter's world. Desperate for escape Maggie accepts an invitation from Liz her pen pal of 27 years whom she's never actually met. In a remote mountain cabin in North Carolina surrounded by nothing but trees and possibilities Maggie begins to question everything: her marriage her career and the safe predictable life she's built. As long-buried truths surface and her professional world crumbles around her Maggie must decide—will she fight to salvage the life she's known for twenty ye