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Caren Simpson McVicker (author)
2.25.27 (release date)
A boardinghouse full of secrets. A summer that changes everything.
In 1941 Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Henderson House offers more than a roof overhead—it serves as a refuge, a crossroads, and a keeper of secrets. Since her husband’s death, Mildred Henderson has filled its rooms with lodgers and companionship, and until she receives a sign, she refuses to step away from the life she’s built. When Frank Davis, a newly arrived Phillips Petroleum Company engineer, rents the sunny front room, he unsettles the careful balance of the house.
For resident Bessie Blackwell, Frank’s arrival stirs feelings she buried long ago. For her sister, Florence, Bessie's interest in Frank poses a threat to her budding plans to accept a new job and move the Blackwell clan to Tulsa, pushing old promises, buried grief, and long-kept secrets to the surface. As summer unfolds, Henderson House gathers its unlikely family around the table again and again, forcing each of them to consider what they’re willing to risk for love, truth, and a new beginning.
Warm, voice-rich, and deeply rooted in place, Henderson House is a historical novel about sisterhood, second chances, found family, and the homes that shape us as surely as the people who fill them.
Caren Simpson McVicker (author)
2.25.27 (release date)
A boardinghouse full of secrets. A summer that changes everything.
In 1941 Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Henderson House offers more than a roof overhead—it serves as a refuge, a crossroads, and a keeper of secrets. Since her husband’s death, Mildred Henderson has filled its rooms with lodgers and companionship, and until she receives a sign, she refuses to step away from the life she’s built. When Frank Davis, a newly arrived Phillips Petroleum Company engineer, rents the sunny front room, he unsettles the careful balance of the house.
For resident Bessie Blackwell, Frank’s arrival stirs feelings she buried long ago. For her sister, Florence, Bessie's interest in Frank poses a threat to her budding plans to accept a new job and move the Blackwell clan to Tulsa, pushing old promises, buried grief, and long-kept secrets to the surface. As summer unfolds, Henderson House gathers its unlikely family around the table again and again, forcing each of them to consider what they’re willing to risk for love, truth, and a new beginning.
Warm, voice-rich, and deeply rooted in place, Henderson House is a historical novel about sisterhood, second chances, found family, and the homes that shape us as surely as the people who fill them.