Drifting - Stephanie Gertler

Although raised by a loving father, Claire is still haunted by the absence of her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.
Now a mother of two, Claire has made a life for herself in the coastal town of Drifting, Connecticut, where she and her husband, Eli, run a Victorian inn.
With her children grown up, her maternal instincts are reawakened when Nicholas Pierce and his blind, seven-year-old daughter, Kayla, come to stay at the inn.
As the child's affinity for her begins to resonate within her, Claire is drawn into a struggle to save Kayla.
Now her desire to find her missing mother is unleashed...