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Nobody Sees Ctrete

Nobody Sees Ctrete

Maye, Katee

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798171310615
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lucretia Aunt Crete Burton has spent her whole life being the family's steady, invisible engine - the one who packs the lunches, fields the phone calls, and quietly gives up her own plans so everyone else's can go smoothly. She stopped expecting anything different a long time ago.

Then a text message arrives announcing a surprise visit from Donald Grant, the wealthy tech-world nephew nobody in the family has bothered to know for twenty years - and her sister and niece do the only thing they know how to do with an inconvenient relative: they flee to the beach and leave Aunt Crete to deal with him.

What follows is a summer neither Crete nor her family ever expected. Donald turns out to be nothing like the backwoods cousin they dreaded - he's generous, funny, and, most disarmingly of all, genuinely curious about the woman everyone else stopped noticing years ago. A shopping trip becomes the first real gift Crete's ever received without strings attached. An ocean she's dreamed about her whole life finally comes into view. And a long, painful confrontation at a beachside hotel finally forces her family to reckon with exactly how much they've taken for granted - and exactly how much Crete is still capable of choosing for herself.

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