A Place to Begin - Shelley Banks

What if the life you’ve been searching for is the one you never planned?

At thirty-six, Amelia Parker feels like she’s been drifting through life - one job, one relationship, one unfinished plan after another. While everyone else seems to have found their place, she’s still searching for hers.

Then comes an unexpected summons to a solicitor’s office.

Her eccentric, beloved Aunt Hadley, who vanished from the family’s life seven years earlier, has died, leaving Amelia an island resort off the coast of Central Queensland.

It’s the last thing she expected, and the last thing she feels qualified to handle. With no experience running a business, Amelia decides the answer is simple: sell it and move on.

But the island has other ideas.

As she settles in, leaning on the warmth and support of the resort’s staff, Amelia starts to see possibilities she’d never considered and to question whether selling is really what she wants. The more she learns about Hadley and why she left her this inheritance, the more she realizes the resort may be offering her something bigger than a fresh start: a future built on purpose, not uncertainty.

Heartwarming and uplifting, A Place to Begin is a story about family, belonging, and second chances - and how the people who believe in us can change everything.

Because sometimes the greatest inheritance isn’t a place. It’s the courage to create the life you’ve always needed.