Newly widowed and looking for a fresh start, Charlotte Figg buys a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky.
Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise opens Joyce Magnin's Bright's Pond series with the kind of small community readers return to again and again: a place full of people who are not quite what they seem.
Neither the trailer nor Paradise is what Charlotte expected. Her new home is a ramshackle place in need of major repair, and the residents of Paradise are keeping more than a few secrets. Then Rose Tattoo discovers Charlotte once played softball and talks her into rallying the women of the park into a team. Charlotte resists at first, but soon she is coaching the Paradise Angels. As she settles in, she learns that the park's manager, Fergus Wrinkel, is abusing his wife, Suzy. Charlotte sets out to help Suzy and, in doing so, is forced to face a painful truth about her own marriage.
Joyce Magnin is an established author of Christian women's fiction whose Bright's Pond novels are set in a close-knit small town in Pennsylvania.
Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise is a story about starting over, the friendships that carry us through, and the courage it takes to see your own life clearly.
