by Nancy Thayer
First published 2024
Eddie Grant works as a personal assistant to famous romance novelist Dinah Lavender in Manhattan, but the glamorous life feels empty. When her younger sister Barrett prepares to launch a gift shop on Nantucket for Memorial Day weekend, Eddie seizes the chance to help. Coming home means confronting painful memories. After their brother died, their mother abandoned the family and their father bought a farm where grief nearly swallowed Eddie whole. She fled to New York after one unbearable year. Now Eddie faces her father's book hoarding problem, Barrett's anger about her long absence, and a former lover whose pull remains strong. The sisters tackle their father's compulsive collecting by converting his barn into a used bookstore. As they work together, they uncover a family secret that will transform their understanding of the past. This summer of reckoning becomes their chance to rebuild broken bonds and forge new paths forward.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Manhattan, Nantucket
Period: Memorial Day Weekend
432 pages · Library Binding · Center Point Large Print