Cassie Danvers has inherited her grandmother June's house in St. Jude, Ohio, a place where nothing of note ever took place except the filming of a movie in 1955. Cassie was raised by June after the death of her parents when she was a child and the loss of June and the guilt she feels about a disagreement they had not long before June's death has left Cassie with no will to do much besides drink and sleep. She's living in her grandmother's house, the formerly grand edifice known as Two Oaks, and can't seem to bring herself to do anything about the fact that it's falling apart around her. She doesn't open any mail that comes or answer the landline and has tossed her cellphone in a river. So when a man comes knocking at her door one day, it seems most likely to her that he is there about some bill she hasn't paid. Instead, the man is there to tell her that she has just been named as the sole beneficiary in the will of a very famous, fabulously wealthy, recently departed actor named Jack Montgomery.
This book is written in chapters about the past and the present, each with an equally interesting cast of characters. The chapters that take place in the past focus on the time during which a film crew came from Hollywood to film a movie that was set during the civil war and used many of the townspeople of St. Jude as extras.
While I think that 2 of the main characters, June and Cassie, could each have been a little more developed, also going back and forth from past to present, I really enjoyed the book ~Summer
