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A Light in a Window: An Inlet Beach Novella
At Inlet Beach, storefronts are draped with garland, sprinkled with fairy-lights and dusted with Christmas magic. Window boxes overflow with evergreens and sea stars, as the sleepy town welcomes visitors for the annual Christmas Lights Festival.
But things are not as perfect as they seem.
On the eve of the tree lighting in the town square, police find a runaway in trouble. Residents of the community gather to help, but complications arise, and unraveling the boy's past is harder than they imagine. As a blustery Pacific Northwest Christmas draws near, can they find a way to give a boy with a shattered past a chance at happiness? Can they give him a home for the holidays?
A Light in the Window is a heartwarming tale of community, family, and second chances.
But things are not as perfect as they seem.
On the eve of the tree lighting in the town square, police find a runaway in trouble. Residents of the community gather to help, but complications arise, and unraveling the boy's past is harder than they imagine. As a blustery Pacific Northwest Christmas draws near, can they find a way to give a boy with a shattered past a chance at happiness? Can they give him a home for the holidays?
A Light in the Window is a heartwarming tale of community, family, and second chances.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 12, 2015
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About the author
Heidi Hostetter
8 books89 followersI love books, always have. There’s just something about the way a story unfolds that seems magical to me. I remember riding my bike down to the public library when I was a kid. I'd filling my basket with anything that looked interesting - fairy tales, detective stories, mysteries. Then I'd pedal home and spend hours lost in story.
So, when I began writing my own stories, I made sure to weave together immersive description, characters you'll root for, struggles that reflect real life, and always –– always –– a happy ending.
THE GIRL I USED TO BE is the newest book in the New Jersey Shore collection. It asks "how much of yourself are you willing to give up for a comfortable life?" And "how hard are you willing to fight to find your way back?"
THE SHORE HOUSE is the first in the Dewberry Beach collection. A story of misunderstanding, forgiveness and the power of second chances, it’s a heartfelt summer read. Perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Pamela Kelley and Nancy Thayer.
THINGS WE SURRENDER is the first book in my Lowcountry collection, novels set in Charleston, South Carolina. Three generations of strong Southern women share an ancestral home and not-quite-forgotten secrets. Can they learn to forgive past betrayal for a second chance at becoming a family? THINGS WE KEEP, the second book in the collection, is Eudora’s story and shows how she salvaged an fractured beginning to became a strong family matriarch.
If you like Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow, you’ll love my Inlet Beach series. A small beach town on the coast of Oregon, Inlet Beach is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else, and they all have an opinion. THE INHERITANCE begins the collection, with three estranged sisters staking a claim to what looks like a dilapidated beach house but is actually a landmark beloved by the residents. A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW revisits Inlet Beach for Christmas, with a runaway teen desperate for help. Can the community come together in time to give a boy a home for the holidays?
So, when I began writing my own stories, I made sure to weave together immersive description, characters you'll root for, struggles that reflect real life, and always –– always –– a happy ending.
THE GIRL I USED TO BE is the newest book in the New Jersey Shore collection. It asks "how much of yourself are you willing to give up for a comfortable life?" And "how hard are you willing to fight to find your way back?"
THE SHORE HOUSE is the first in the Dewberry Beach collection. A story of misunderstanding, forgiveness and the power of second chances, it’s a heartfelt summer read. Perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Pamela Kelley and Nancy Thayer.
THINGS WE SURRENDER is the first book in my Lowcountry collection, novels set in Charleston, South Carolina. Three generations of strong Southern women share an ancestral home and not-quite-forgotten secrets. Can they learn to forgive past betrayal for a second chance at becoming a family? THINGS WE KEEP, the second book in the collection, is Eudora’s story and shows how she salvaged an fractured beginning to became a strong family matriarch.
If you like Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow, you’ll love my Inlet Beach series. A small beach town on the coast of Oregon, Inlet Beach is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else, and they all have an opinion. THE INHERITANCE begins the collection, with three estranged sisters staking a claim to what looks like a dilapidated beach house but is actually a landmark beloved by the residents. A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW revisits Inlet Beach for Christmas, with a runaway teen desperate for help. Can the community come together in time to give a boy a home for the holidays?
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November 29, 2017
Very good
Book two of Inlet Beach, very good, inspiring and touching. The magic of Christmas. Wished it was a bit longer but still very good
Book two of Inlet Beach, very good, inspiring and touching. The magic of Christmas. Wished it was a bit longer but still very good
July 12, 2017
The road to a happy Christmas memory
Really heart warming. This is an example of our cps service that is often inadequate mostly because of lack of funding to help children who are the result of a lack of a
loving family that all children should have and an example of the dangers of drugs and alcohol. We are blessed by people who have big loving hearts that make such a difference to people that truly are in need, both children and adults.
Really heart warming. This is an example of our cps service that is often inadequate mostly because of lack of funding to help children who are the result of a lack of a
loving family that all children should have and an example of the dangers of drugs and alcohol. We are blessed by people who have big loving hearts that make such a difference to people that truly are in need, both children and adults.
August 24, 2021
I liked the story line and the characters in this book, and I would have liked to learn more about them. I was disappointed in how short it was, it seemed to just end abruptly. I haven't read any of this authors other books, so I'm not sure if they are the same way.
January 13, 2022
Friendship, family
This is a cute almost "booklet" . It's not long at all. The writing isn't perfect and the story is a little disjointed in a couple of places but it is still good. It's heartwarming how everyone comes together to change a young teenage boys life.
This is a cute almost "booklet" . It's not long at all. The writing isn't perfect and the story is a little disjointed in a couple of places but it is still good. It's heartwarming how everyone comes together to change a young teenage boys life.
May 10, 2017
Good read
I was touched by this story. Too many real life ones exist today.we can all make a difference in some lives.
I was touched by this story. Too many real life ones exist today.we can all make a difference in some lives.
June 22, 2017
Heart warming
Very heart warming great read about family and friends caring about each other and showing love for one another again
Very heart warming great read about family and friends caring about each other and showing love for one another again
November 9, 2018
It was a short story but it was a very nice
Story. Short and sweet🎄
Story. Short and sweet🎄
May 11, 2019
Heartwarming
Heartwarming short story. Definitely going to try the author's other works. Short but well written. Brought tears to my eyes
Heartwarming short story. Definitely going to try the author's other works. Short but well written. Brought tears to my eyes
November 14, 2019
Great book
May 1, 2016
The Inheritance is a story about three estranged sisters and their struggle to re-unite as a family while restoring a beach house they inherited. Maureen, the oldest, is looking for a place where her family can escape for vacation from the hectic restaurant world that they live in. Lydia, entrenched in debt, wants to sell the house to satisfy the creditors banging down her door. Tyra, the youngest, has a successful tech business and nomadic, looking for a place to settle down.
Set on the Oregon coast, one of my favorite placed on earth, these three women battle the elements of a coastal Northwest spring and each other while restoring a “stately three-story Victorian with a gabled roofline” and wrap-around porch.
To quote a line from The Man From Snowy River, “One of life’s greatest injustices is that you can’t choose your own relatives.” Heidi Hostetter shows us the complicated and miraculous relationships that can only belong to sisters. She intertwines theses three women with quirky town-folk and I found myself feeling as though I was walking the streets of Inlet Beach (aka Cannon Beach?) alongside them. The characters still haunt me months after having read the book. Thank you Heidi for creating a wonderful world.
Set on the Oregon coast, one of my favorite placed on earth, these three women battle the elements of a coastal Northwest spring and each other while restoring a “stately three-story Victorian with a gabled roofline” and wrap-around porch.
To quote a line from The Man From Snowy River, “One of life’s greatest injustices is that you can’t choose your own relatives.” Heidi Hostetter shows us the complicated and miraculous relationships that can only belong to sisters. She intertwines theses three women with quirky town-folk and I found myself feeling as though I was walking the streets of Inlet Beach (aka Cannon Beach?) alongside them. The characters still haunt me months after having read the book. Thank you Heidi for creating a wonderful world.
March 28, 2020
More of a novella and a heartwarming look at the Inlet Beach community a few years after The Inheritance.
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