Chapter 63

Jack had seen pictures of the house, but he admitted, they didn’t do it justice. The property itself was only about an acre and there were other houses on the cliff flanking it. But the property which until recently had been in Kevin O’Callahan’s family for three generations was on the highest area of the cliff for over a mile in each direction and the cliff poked out into the lake, so two different sides of the house had spectacular and different views.

The house itself was actually a rebuild and was therefore quite modern as the whole area around Possum Kingdom Lake had suffered dramatic property losses to wildfires just over a decade before. Kevin barely remembered the old cabin. His father and mother had used the insurance money and invested more and designed a modern house to replace the burned out husk.

Two stories tall, there were four bedrooms, each with their own bathroom on the second floor. The first floor had an open floorplan with a wide stairway near the front door and a few strategically placed columns that supported the upper floor. The house was painted white while the roof tiles were a bright cerulean blue. Connor and his ex-wife had chosen those colors as a nod to their honeymoon in Santorini.

The only structure to survive the wildfires was the boat house, which was seventy-five-feet below the cliff on the rocky shore below. That was really the only disadvantage of the cliffside house--no sandy beach. But there was a sandy public beach a few minutes drive away. And Connor had insisted they add a pool with the rebuild anyway.