As a high school girl, Agnes Quinn begins writing her novel Trevorode the Defender. Despite warnings from her family, she majors in creative writing in college. When her best friend and her mentor disappoint her, Agnes, disillusioned, abandons work on her novel for a more practical degree in English Education. On her first day as a teacher at Brighton Park Community College, her sensible plans are disrupted when she encounters the mysterious Jonas Grinstead. A private investigator, seeking Jonas, assumes Agnes is Jonas’ friend and questions her. Agnes becomes determined to piece together Jonas’ fascinating past. Her dream to write becomes entangled with Jonas’ plan to rescue the Magnolia Arms, the house he built and left behind decades earlier. Jonas and Agnes work out an improbable scheme to accomplish their aspirations, but when Olympia Pillburn, seeking revenge, threatens to ruin their plans, Agnes must choose which dream she will save.
About the Book

Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.

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