Mother Nature does her best to rip this family apart.

When a hurricane threatens to wreak havoc on the South Carolina coast, Annie prepares Sweet Magnolia for what she thinks will be a day or two without electricity while Jack checks on Lady Powell down at the dock. But when Jack doesn’t return promptly, Annie becomes concerned and sets out only to find his lifeless body lying on the dock.

Mary, Annie’s sister, makes an announcement that makes her the center of attention, but Annie has a bit of news herself causing them to share the limelight and causes a flurry of excitement on the island, setting in motion more parties and celebration.

Annie is having second thoughts about running the Sweet Indulgence. Is she just feeling the pressure of motherhood or could this be the end of the cupcakery she started from the ground up?

Sweet Carolina, the third installment of the Charleston Harbor Novels promises to be an uplifting sweet contemporary women’s fiction laced with a romantic thread, where honor and love of family always prevail.