First published 2020
Mallory Aldiss gets the phone call she never wanted. Something has happened involving her father back in Rhode Island. She has stayed away from Bay Bluff for twenty years, ever since the scandal that wrecked her parents' marriage and tore her family apart. The same scandal that ended things with Jack Sabathian, the man she loved. Now she lives in New York as a photographer with her teenage daughter Joy. But the call forces her hand. Joy wants to see where her mother grew up, and family loyalty pulls Mallory back to the beach house she fled. Seven days at the shore will test everything. Old wounds will reopen. Her two sisters wait there, along with all the painful history between them. Jack Sabathian still lives nearby. The truth about what happened twenty years ago refuses to stay buried. Mallory must face the choices that drove her away and decide what family really means.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Bay Bluff, New York, Rhode Island
Period: 20 Years Ago
400 pages · Kindle Edition · St. Martin's Press