I’m definitely putting this one into my beach bag! I’ve never seen a bookstore on the beach but I have seen one of those Little Free Libraries, where you can leave a book for someone else to pick up, on Cape Cod at Corn HIll Beach in Truro. Fun Fact: A pivotal scene in my novel Blue Hydrangeas takes place at this beach.
Description
How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven’t closed the book on the previous one?
Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac’s husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can’t imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try.
Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother and aunt at their bookshop, only to learn that her daughter is facing a huge life change and her mother has been hiding a terrible secret for years. And when she runs into the boy who stole her heart in high school, old feelings start to bubble up again. Is she free to love him, or should she hold out hope for her husband’s return? She can only trust her heart…and hope it won’t lead her astray.
“A heart-tugging romance. Readers are sure to be sucked in.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
A page-turner with a deep heart.”—Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer
About the Author
It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s career as a bestselling author–she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home.
“When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists and won many awards, including eight Rita nominations, the Book Buyer’s Best, the Book Seller’s Best, the Silver Bullet and the National Reader’s Choice Award.
Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children–three girls and two boys. When she’s not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually raising funds for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). So far, Brenda has raised $2.6 million!
Join Brenda Novak’s Online Book Group on Facebook– http://www.facebook.com/groups/brendanovaksbookgroup/. We’re currently reading her newest release THE BOOKSTORE ON THE BEACH. Get an autographed copy in one of Brenda’s popular Book Boxes: http://www.brendanovakstore.com/.
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Marianne Sciucco, Author 