WWII sailor Winston (Wink) Cunningham, home on leave, meets seventeen year-old Irene Walker. An unlikely combination with little in common, their relationship gets off to a rocky beginning.

 

Women have been chasing Wink since he was fifteen years old but he prides himself on his record for avoiding monogamy. Irene is a no-nonsense girl who is unimpressed by material things. Sparks ignite between them, but their romance is put on hold while Wink ships out to the Pacific.

 

When he returns home, Wink becomes intrigued with an old house in Cleveland, along the shore of Lake Erie, and when Irene sees it, there is no turning back.

 

Once they settle in, the Cunninghams discover that there’s an air of mystery; more to the house and the neighborhood than they had originally thought.

 

Wink becomes so obsessed with the house that he fails to see the

storm brewing on his own personal horizon. With assistance from a collection of oddball neighbors and a lesson from a determined eleven year-old boy who believes in the unbelievable, Wink and Irene answer some the questions left by the former owner of the house.

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But will it be enough to succeed in navigating their troubled waters?

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This second story in the Edgewater series

will warm your heart, win you over

and leave you asking for the next one.

 

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