It all started with a familiar sign: House for Sale: To Be Moved. Family farms on PEI had disappeared in the thousands in the mid-1900s.Tourists would scoop up the farmhouses, fix them up and speak glowingly of the authenticity they had re-introduced to the old building. But this wasn’t a house like those houses. It had started out at Park Corner, on the pond Lucy Maud Montgomery called “The Lake of Shining Waters.” Then it moved up above Brander’s Pond and finally became know as “a little dollhouse” on the Sea View landscape. Once she saw it, Hilary fell in love and couldn’t stop herself from buying it, starting a thirty-year adventure with an Island community she came to love.

Hilary MacLeod is a writer and former journalist and broadcasterwho divides her time between a cabin in the woods near Ameliasburgh,Ontario, and a house in Sea View, Prince Edward Island -- ahouse that was once inhabited by the hired hand on L. M. Montgomery’sUncle George Campbell’s farm. She is a retired professor ofMedia Studies at Loyalist College, and now spends her time plottingwhat her next murder will be. She is the author of three other booksin the Shores’ series: Revenge of the Lobster Lover, Mind Over Musselsand All is Clam. Revenge of the Lobster Lover won the CBC BookiePrize for Best Mystery.

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