Summer Beach Reads
It's time for another installment of titles for your beach reading pleasure. Whether you like to lounge by the pool at the condo or feel the breeze from the Gulf of Mexico on your face, you simply must have a good novel to read while you relax in the sun. As people frolic and play in the water, while others point out the sharks close to shore, you can rest easy in the knowledge that you are far enough from the water to be out of harm's way. Editorial note: Apparently the sharks are feeding close to shore down in Orange Beach. In any case, check out one of these fun beach reads and enjoy the coast. Descriptions are from the publisher.
A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's
most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve
Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks
of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and
Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep
friendship--and flirt with an unexpected attraction--of their own.
Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island's tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach.
Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have
descended on the glamorous island of Nantucket. For year-round resident Darcy
Cotterill, it means late-night stargazing in the backyard of the beautiful
house she grew up in and inherited from her beloved grandmother. It's also
Darcy's chance to hit the beach and meet her new summertime neighbors. But the
last person the thirty-year-old librarian expects to see staying next door is
her ex-husband, Boyz, along with his wife, Autumn, and stepdaughter, Willow.
Darcy must also navigate the highs and lows of a new romantic relationship with local carpenter Nash Forester even as she becomes smitten with handsome vacationer Clive Rush, a musicologist in town to write a book and visit family. And she finds herself pulled into the concerns of Boyz, Autumn, a charming elderly neighbor, and an at-risk teen.
As the season nears its end, Darcy must decide her next
move: retreating to the comforts of her steady and secure island life, or
risking it all for a chance at true happiness.
When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle
of Palms to Heather Fordham for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any
standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism
boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who's been
given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which
to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted.
It isn't long, however, before both women's idyllic summers are altered irrevocably: the alluring shorebirds--and the man who rescues them--begin to draw Heather out of the shell she's cultivated toward a world of adventure, and maybe even love; at the same time, Cara's life reels with sudden tragedy, and she wishes only to return to the beach house that had once been her port amidst life's storms. When Heather refuses to budge from her newfound sanctuary, so begins the unlikeliest of rooming situations. While they start out as strangers, as everything around the women falls apart they learn that the only thing they can really rely on is each other.
The Whitaker family's Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea,
has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and
the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitakers supported
strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged
for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at The
Muses. Leo, the family matriarch, lives in the mansion. Her daugher Jillian is a jet-setting actress. Issy, Jillian's daughter, has a successful life as a museum exhibit designer, and her 12-year old niece, Steph, has been left with Leo by Issy's sister.
As Issy martials the family together to restore the mansion and catalogue the massive art collection, a surprising thing happens. Despite storms and moonlight dancing, diva attacks and cat fights, trips to the beach and flights of fancy, these four generations of erratic, dramatic women may just find a way to save the Muses and reunite their family.
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