After losing all their savings in a Ponzi scheme, Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are brought together by the only thing any of them has left, Bella Flora, a fixer-upper on TEN BEACH ROAD in Pass-a-Grille, Florida. Each woman is facing her own challenges. Madeline, a homemaker enjoying the empty nest, finds herself unexpectedly with an unemployed and depressed husband, a sick mother-in-law who calls her by the name of her husband's ex-girlfriend, and a pregnant daughter. Avery, an architect, finds herself unemployed after being pushed out of the home repair TV show she started with her (now ex-) husband. Nikki, matchmaker to the wealthy and spoiled, no longer has a business after losing all her money and trusting the wrong person. For each woman, Bella Flora is her last hope. Though strangers when they meet, the women band together to renovate and sell the house.

TEN BEACH ROAD is a story about renovating a home and a life. The women, and the family and friends who join them, find a way to appreciate the best of Bella Flora while working hard to make the changes needed to make it beautiful again. The restoration process parallels their own personal reinventions. Each must find and protect what is best in herself while making the tough decisions and necessary changes. The strength of the story comes in the friendship that develops between the women and how they encourage and challenge each other. Ms. Wax has written a lovely story that recognizes the power of the female spirit, while being fun, emotional, and a little romantic.

Book Summary

Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager- leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house.

Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power of friendship, secrets threaten to tear down their trust- and destroy their lives a second time.