![]() When one of her three daughters calls her and tells her about losing her job and fiancé, Ruth has to come clean that Phoebe's dad left her a week ago. All those years of shrinking herself and giving all to her family begin to come crashing down on Ruth. Then one day he comes into the kitchen and announces he is leaving her because he has fallen in love with someone else. Ruth has been married for over 30 years and made herself into the perfect wife, even going along with her husband's idea to sell their family home and move into a condo. “No, I'm fine.” it was a lie neither one of them was fine. When she calls her mother, Phoebe realizes she's not the only one. Phoebe loses her job, fiancé, a place to live, and any sense of security in one fell swoop. Phoebe realizes that her dream of writing local and inspiring stories is becoming lost to her and that her fiancé has been lying to her for two years as he's been looking to sell the paper. When Phoebe's fiance Gavin walks into the local newspaper The Sentinel's offices, the newspaper that Phoebe has been working hard to keep afloat ever since Gavin inherited it from his father, Phoebe's mentor, and declares today is the last day because he sold it, her world comes crashing down. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. I honestly reviewed an unedited digital arc proved by NetGalley and Avon Publishing. They came across as very human with their pasts and baggage however, their ambition shined and I was pleased by the happy endings and new beginnings! I highly recommend this novel. The rest of the story deepens into each main character’s life and shows and tells the choices they are making at this major turning point in their journeys. I was afraid this plot wouldn’t have the depth of the usual Shelley Noble beach story. The first third of this story was rather slow for me as the characters and their situations were established. Lars treats Ty horribly and anyone else who tries to get through to him. When they arrive, Ty Hardin is staying next door with his father, Lars, who’s been deeply depressed and uncooperative since his wife passed away. ![]() Phoebe and Ruth decide to visit Granna (Alice) at her beach house for some planning and thinking time. When she calls her parents to tell them the bad news, her father has left her mother, Ruth, and is having an affair. Phoebe Adams is an investigative reporter who finds out she’s been betrayed by her fiancé and lost her job all in one swoop. It will take the support of her newly awakened family and the magic of Summer Island for Phoebe to embrace the challenge of an unexpected future and to trust her own heart.Īuthor Shelley Noble pens a feel good yet, emotional women’s fiction novel about mothers and daughters and fathers and sons trying to reconnect after their lives have gone in all different directions. Each adventure opens a part of themselves they've neglected for too long and brings them closer together.īut when an accident threatens to destroy the tenuous tie between them, Phoebe realizes how fragile life can be, and that she has some serious choices to make about her own life. Soon they're all enjoying things they used to do and discovering new ones. With Vera around, no one can stay morose for long, not even Lars, the grumpy widower next door, or his son Ty, formerly geeky middle child all grown up into a handsome and enigmatic man. Phoebe's plan for a peaceful retreat is quickly hijacked when globe-trotting Great Aunt Vera makes an unannounced pit stop. The Harken house next door is in disrepair. Large beach houses are replacing the old. They both need a haven, and Phoebe knows just the place-Summer Island, where Grandma Alice still rules the roost from the big New England beach house Phoebe and Ruth once called home.īut "home" has changed. When reporter Phoebe Adams loses her job and her fiancé on the same day, it never occurs to her that she'll also have to support her mother, Ruth, through her divorce from Phoebe's father after thirty-five years of marriage. New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble pens a heartwarming story of a mother-daughter road trip to the beach and to self-discovery.
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