BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a relationship Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that she has left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Island that needs a lot of fixing up. Harry the current manager stays on to help fix up the place, only because she doesn't have the money to pay him what he's owed. Her friend Weezie lends her a hand at decorating the place to get paying customers.
Then she gets enough information to track down Reddy in Fort Lauderdale, and BeBe decides to go after him. She her granddaddy Loudermilk, Weezie and Harry with a plan to get her money back from him they way he took it from her. ( )

BeBe Loudermilk has always considered herself to be a fairly savvy businesswoman. She's lived in Savannah for her entire life and everybody in her family lived there for /their/ entire lives. Nothing much ever changes in Savannah. BeBe has managed to carve a fairly nice niche for herself, being the owner of what the critics call "the best little restaurant in Savannah," along with a gorgeous townhouse in the historic district and a handful of rental properties besides. BeBe is pretty satisfied with her life, especially after the trauma of her last divorce. But, even a level headed businesswoman can make a mistake, and BeBe makes a big one when she meets Reddy Millbanks III. Suave, helpful, attentive, with "slap-your-Mama" good looks, Reddy is right there to help in the middle of a very hectic time in BeBe's life. He even lets her in on a couple of very lucrative real estate deals and she makes a tidy little profit. In fact, she thinks it's another real estate deal when he needs her signature on a couple of legal documents and what difference could it possibly make that she doesn't have her reading glasses when he puts the papers before her just before she falls asleep one night, nestled in the stateroom of Reddy's yacht? When she wakes up in the morning, she realizes it makes a HUGE difference -- Reddy has her power of attorney and has sold everything she owns, including her home and all it's contents! With only the clothes she has on her back and her car, BeBe discovers from her lawyer that she still owns one piece of property -- a run-down, falling in no-tell motel called the Breeze Inn on Tybee Island. Apparently it's one property that Reddy didn't get around to flipping before he made the big score, so with no other place to call home, BeBe arrives with all her worldly goods in a paper bag from the Piggly Wiggly. She finds motel cabins that are enough to gross out a sewer worker, and a curmudgeonly caretaker named Harry who'd really rather she went about her business elsewhere. But BeBe decides to fix the place up and try to run it. And when her lawyer tips her off that there's been a Reddy sighting in Fort Lauderdale, she takes off with her grandfather, her best friend, and Harry, to perform a little sting of her own and get her money back.

Ok, so this is chick lit, but it was pretty good. I like this author (she also writes the Callahan Garrity mystery series under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck). She knows how to write with a southern flair and her characters are well fleshed and multi-dimensional. The story was fairly predictable but was humorous. It was a good book to read during the week I've just had. We had a horrible storm last Friday and no electricity, so I've only been able to read in little snatches. Anyway, this book fit the bill for me this week. ( )

Great story about a woman losing almost everything she owns except a run-down motel on Tybee Island. Amazingly, with the help of her best friend, she turns the place around and begins getting her life back. ( )

This was a pretty cute book. It's not so much a romance/mystery novel as it is a book about camp characters and funny capers. Very well written for the genre. ( )

Bebe Loudermilk loses all her possessions with the exception of a motel she didn't even know she owned when her new boyfriend Reddy skips town with everything. Since the police won't do anything about it, Bebe and friends set out to take justice into their own hands. I found this plot and the characters to be unbelievable, although somewhat enjoyable. I felt that the author could have accomplished her goals in fewer pages and that the book was unnecessarily long. ( )