The Summer Place

<B>From the #1 <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author of <I>That Summer</I> comes another “fun, feisty” (<I>The Washington Post</I>) novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.</B><BR><BR>When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved <I>safta</I>, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.<BR><BR>But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news,