The Prayer Box (A Carolina Chronicles Book 1)

When Iola Anne Poole, a ninety-one-year-old longtime resident of Hatteras Island, dies, Tandi Jo Reese, a struggling young mother renting Iola's cottage, is tasked with clearing out her large Victorian house. Running from a difficult and dangerous past, Tandi expects only temporary shelter, but her discovery of eighty-one decorated prayer boxes—one for each year of Iola's life—transforms everything. The boxes contain handwritten notes spanning from Iola's youth to her final days, revealing the hopes, wishes, fears, and reflections of a complex woman. Through these fragments, Tandi encounters the story of an ordinary life marked by journeys of faith, observations on love, and a final lesson with potential to change her own future.