The Keeper’s Letter: Ellie inherits the inn and uncovers its connection to the twin lighthouses. Letters reappear, storms reveal long-lost secrets, and Ellie becomes the new Keeper. Ends with both beams crossing the cove for the first time in decades. When Ellie Whitaker inherits the weathered Driftwood Inn on a remote Carolina island, she expects peeling paint, creaky floors, and too many repairs to count, not the soft hum of something still alive inside its walls. Locals whisper about the two lighthouses that guard the cove, one shining bright, the other long dark, and about the inn that always seems to remember its keepers. But when a sealed letter box hidden in the parlor clicks open for the first time in decades, Ellie discovers a stack of yellowed envelopes, each addressed to someone called The Keeper of the Light . As summer storms gather and the tides grow strange, the old stories begin to stir: a lost lighthouse keeper, a compass marked J.R. , and a legacy of women chosen not by blood, but by the island itself. With the help of a patient craftsman, a stubborn historian, and the sea that never stops listening, Ellie must uncover the truth buried beneath the beams, and decide whether she believes in the legend of the light. Because some houses keep secrets. The Driftwood Inn keeps promises “Some houses keep secrets. The Driftwood Inn keeps promises.”