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The Guest Book Series

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The Guest Book Series, Book One

The Man in Cabin Number Five

When seven 1920 era cabins in Lake Arrowhead, California are restored to their original vintage charm, the new owner has no idea that the cabins have their own stories to tell.
The Guest Book Series , Book One (The Man in Cabin Number Five), is about two women; one who is looking towards her future and one who has discovered thirty years after her father died, that it was from a murder/suicide and not natural causes.

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The Guest Book Series, Book Two

The Girls in Cabin Number Three

In Book Two, eighty-one-year-old Annie Parker continues to draw on her memories of the 1980s when she lived in idyllic Lake Arrowhead, Ca. Against Noah’s wishes, she accepts a design job with her wealthy client, Grayson Underwood, and flies to Montana. When she returns, Noah has gone. More determined than ever, Annie makes a decision she will forever regret.
Carrie Davis lives in the mountains until she moves down to go to college and get married. After her divorce, she moves back up to the family home on the lake to help care for her mother, Elizabeth. Upon her mother’s death, Carrie discovers Elizabeth’s ties to Cabin Number Three and a former speakeasy from the thirties and forties. A man who’s come into her life also has ties to the private club, but she finds they are much deeper ones.

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The Guest Book Series, Book Three

The Starlet in Cabin Number Seven

Return to picturesque 1980s Lake Arrowhead, California where another cozy cabin sheltered amongst the sweeping pine-lined vistas holds a long-buried secret, waiting to be divulged.
In this third installment of The Guest Book Trilogy, a young Annie Parker is struggling to overcome her grief over the recent loss of her sister, when a childhood friend unexpectedly turns up seeking refuge from an ill-fated marriage. It would have been easy for Annie to sink deeper into sadness, but when she learns her newest design client, Hudson Fisher, is the son of the late film actress Celeste Williams, her curiosity is peaked. 
A heartwarming tale of friendships, forgiveness, and a touch of old Hollywood glamour, The Starlet in Cabin Number Seven will have readers captivated from beginning to end.

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The Guest Book Series, Book Four

The Maidservant in Cabin Number One

The Maidservant in Cabin Number One is the beginning of the story of The Guest Book Trilogy, and of Annie Parker who eventually comes to own the cabins where Ruth Landry stayed.
After her father’s death in 1923, when Ruth Ann Landry is just ten, she joins her mother as a maidservant for a wealthy Seattle family. The hours are long, the rules are strict, but she and her mother desperately need her wages to survive.
By the time she’s seventeen, they’ve moved into the house, and she’s become a mistress to her employer. Ruth eventually finds solace in the mountain town of Lake Arrowhead, California, where she stays in one of the cabins owned by a man who becomes part of her future.

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The Guest Book Series, Book Five

Dear Noah, The Conclusion

Now in her mid-eighties, Annie Parker reflects on a life shaped both by heartbreak and healing. Her journey began with a life-altering decision to start anew, dedicating herself to restoring a collection of 1920s-era cabins, each rich with its own story. Through this labor of love, she wove together the memories of her past with the promise of her future.
In Dear Noah, Annie revisits her passionate love affair with Noah Chambers, a relationship filled with joy and laughter, but overshadowed by an ominous prophecy from an Indian fortune teller. As their love story unfolds, the prophecy casts a long shadow, leaving Annie alone and mourning.

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