Little Pink Houses

Author(s): Lisa Binsfeld

Location(s): Belize

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): contemporary

Cole Lavetsky is done. Done with Hollywood exploitation, done with her high-stress executive career, and done living in the shadow of her golden-boy twin brother, a former teen heartthrob. With her vintage guitar and the beginnings of a revenge novel, Cole retreats to a rent-free condo on Ambergris Caye, Belize to reinvent herself.

No surprise, island life comes with charms and complications. What Cole didn’t expect was to have her imagination hijacked by a fantastical pink painted resort—now in ruins—and a seven-year-old prodigy, Elías, who “camps” there. When she meets Thatcher Ames, the island’s infamous (and infuriatingly good-looking) philanthropist, Cole reluctantly accepts that she’ll have to team up with him to help the boy.

As meetings on the beach blur into sunset dinners, Cole tells herself she’s got things under control—with Elías, Thatcher, and her book. Until Elías’s grandma, an elderly Mayan mystic, reveals an uncanny insight and Cole begins to fear that in hiding her past, she’s put Elías’s future—and the hearts of everyone involved—in jeopardy.

Darkly funny, achingly candid, and vibrantly atmospheric, Little Pink Houses is a multilayered story about the messy grace we owe ourselves, and the astonishing things that happen when we find the courage to act in the face of fear.

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