Mary Kay Andrews' novel is the story of five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants can they also provide what she needs? Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread.

A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world.though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets.

Julia-whose caustic wit covers up her wounds-has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis falls in love, and Dorie meets a new guy, and Julie makes a big decision, and Maryn breaks free… and the readers of 'Summer Rental' will stay glued to their sandy beach chairs waiting to see what happens next.Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction.Įllis, Julia, and Dorie. This is a perfect beach book: the tale of a sandy, flea-bitten summer house and one month in August in which honesty triumphs over silence, and love over lies. Just like the other novels in this column, unraveling secrets makes for fascinating reading. Perfect are getting a divorce there are secrets to do with babies and jobs… In fact, everyone they meet – from the gorgeous Ty Bazemore next door, to the runaway Maryn who joins them in the house – is hiding something: 'I have a confession to make' is the most often-repeated sentence in the novel. But even though they're best friends, it turns out that they're keeping secrets… from each other and from their spouses. Friends Ellis, Julia, and Dorie rent a run-down house in North Carolina's Outer Banks. If the other novels on this list have circled around a secret, Mary Kay Andrews' A Summer Rental offers a whole circus of them.

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