Love Along the Lakeshore

A Saugatuck Summer

When wealthy Ginny Madden encounters a rugged fruit farmer, Andrew McBride, she questions her future as prescribed by her parents. It’s 1915 in the art colony of Saugatuck, Michigan, and Ginny prefers sketching with other artists. Weary of her parents’ expectations to marry the man of their choice and enter the prestige and power of Chicago’s society, Ginny Madden chooses a different path. When the family’s summer cook suddenly cancels, Ginny assumes and revels in the responsibilities of cooking at their Lake Michigan cottage. Needing advice from lighting a fire to baking biscuits, Ginny bonds with Andrew McBride and his mother and they instruct her in homemaking skills. She also offers to help at certain jobs on Andrew's farm and comes to love both the farmer and his orchards. But her parents reject her romance with Andrew and insist upon a courtship with a family friend who is determined to marry Ginny. Fueled by her passion for the suffragist movement and her friendship with a female art student, Ginny grows in confidence and dreams. She flees from her parent’s choices and into Andrew’s arms who encourages her newfound identity.