House on the Harbor (Birch Harbor Book 1)

Description

Some houses hold a family together. This one held its secrets.

For years, the house on the harbor sat at the heart of the Hannigan family, the place every daughter learned to swim, to fight, to leave. Now their mother, Nora, is gone, and she has left them the one thing none of them knew how to carry: the house itself, and a will written like a riddle.

To claim it, the sisters have to come home to Birch Harbor, the small Michigan town on the shore of Lake Huron where everyone remembers their family and no one has quite forgotten what happened there. They arrive as near strangers, each carrying a different version of the childhood they shared, each sure she knows how the story went.

But Nora left more than a house. In her rooms and her letters and the things she never said aloud, the sisters begin
to find a past that doesn’t match the one they remember. A choice their mother made long ago. A truth she carried to
the end. And a name that changes who they are to one another.

Told across two timelines, with Nora’s own story rising to meet her daughters’, House on the Harbor is a warm, secret-laced novel about sisters, inheritance, and the homes that make us and call us back.

The beloved first book in the Birch Harbor series. Clean women’s fiction for readers of Lisa Wingate and Kristin
Hannah. 4.2 stars, 85,000+ readers.