Swimming Cat Cove by Lauren Wright Douglas

Displaced Californian Allison O'Neil is busily working through a long list of things she needs to do to make her newly inherited bed and breakfast profitable. The daughter of the B&B's live-in handywoman brings home a bedraggled nine-year-old, Minou. Before the week is up Allison is going to have a couple of unexpected things on her to-do list; ...