There is an island I love – it is called Daufuskie Island in South Carolina. At the tip of this island there is an area called Bloody Point (I know this is not a romantic name, but it is one of the most breathtaking, heart-opening places you’ve ever seen). On Bloody Point there are a cluster of cottages called the DRIFTWOOD COTTAGES. One afternoon I was out in the Calibogue Sound with some friends and one of them turned to me and said, “That’s a good book title.”
I agreed.

And as with all my novels, the story started to grow from a single seed. What if three sisters reunited in one of those cottages? What if that cottage was important to them and it was threatened in some way? What if their mama made things even worse? What if two of them had once loved the same man?

I asked myself all of these questions, and then took two of my favorite things – beaches and bookstores – and wrote a story of three sisters who can barely stand to be near each other anymore. I then made them unite in one common goal – save the DRIFTWOOD COTTAGE.

Oh, the complications…