The Lady & Her Porch

As if in search of the Holy Grail, Charlotte knew what she had to do - start Life over in another place on her own terms. Northeast Florida fulfilled her need for coastal living, small town, and casual lifestyle. There she found a laid-back attitude just like the feel of home during her youth in the low country of South Carolina. Charlotte returned to South Carolina a few years ago, not to live but to refurbish her grandmother's house into a Bed and Breakfast. It previously operated as a Tourist Home during the town's heydays in the 40s. Since most of the town's motels closed after the interstate took travelers away from Hwy. 301, the town was in need of a place for casual, laid-back vacation escapes. It just so happens that a wedding is about to take place. The daughter of one of the town's founding families is marrying a man from the North, and the Yankee relatives need a place to stay for a week of wedding-related events. What better place to stay than at Charlotte's B&B for some Southern hospitality and story swapping on the porch. It is the wedding that brings absentee owner Charlotte back to the town to oversee this important occasion for her B&B ... and she is in for a huge surprise when the final guest arrives.