Hotel Laguna

Let go from her job as a riveter at Douglas Aircraft when World War II ends and young men eager for jobs return home, Hazel Francis has no job, no housing, and no family nearby her in California. Returning to her Kansas hometown is impossible due to an unfortunate relationship, and she misses the skill, sense of meaning, and importance of her former job. After a failed interview for a Los Angeles job, she impulsively stops in fabled Laguna Beach and instantly falls in love with the beauty of the oceanside artistic community. She soon lands a job there and an apartment as assistant to Laguna Beach’s most successful artist, Hanson Radcliff. Hanson, benevolent and cantankerous by turns, has dark secrets that repel and fascinate her. After several near disasters, Hazel becomes part of a community, as she has always longed to do, and manages to repay her employer’s generosity by saving his reputation.