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From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts forever What's in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man she's loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery. With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. She's the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every night--even if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want? Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door. In town for his father's funeral, he has come to see Carly one last time, hoping to rid himself of the anger that still consumes him. Instead, he is drawn into a web of secrets that rekindles the fierce need he once felt to protect Carly. He becomes caught up in her life in a way he never could have imagined--a way that will bind him to her forever.
Weaving together love and laughter, heartache and hope, promise and passion, "Another Summer" returns to the world of "The Beach House" with new stories entwined in a powerful emotional journey. A twentieth high school reunion reunites lovers who must learn to trust again. Teenagers from opposite worlds discover that having a chip on their shoulder only makes it harder to get through doors. An ambitious corporate attorney finds herself falling for the man she has vowed to destroy in the courtroom. A young family, reeling from a devastating loss, meets a mysterious older couple and a half-starved stray cat that will guide them back to each other. None of these people will leave the beach house the same as they were before. . . .
Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockoven's The Beach House and Another Summer Alison arrives at the beach house in June to spend a month with her restless grandson before he leaves for his first year of college. More than a decade earlier, Alison lost her beloved husband, and has faced life alone ever since. Now she discovers a new life and a possible new love. August brings together four college friends facing a milestone. During summer's final days, they share laughter, tears, and love--revealing long-held secrets and creating new and even more powerful bonds. World-class wildlife photographer Matthew and award-winning war photographer Lindsey arrive at the beach house in January, each harboring the very real fear that it will mark the end of their decade-long love affair. Alone in the house's warm peace, they are forced to truly look at who they are and what they want, discovering surprising truths that will change their lives forever.
To face the future, a woman must let go of the past. . . . Returning to her childhood home in the golden hills of Northern California means regret and pain for Karla Esterbrook. Yet she can't refuse when her ailing grandmother, Anna, asks her to help settle her affairs. After all, Anna raised Karla and her younger sisters after their parents' death twenty years before. But from the beginning a powerful clash of wills separated Karla and her grandmother, leaving them both bitter and angry. Little does Karla know that a very determined Anna will do everything in her power to bridge the chasm between them. But can the wounds of the past truly be healed? For Karla, opening her heart could lead to more hurt--or perhaps to reconciliation . . . and a love the likes of which she has never known.
Bestselling author Georgia Bockoven is at her powerful and
emotional peak in this novel perfect for fans of Nancy Thayer and
Elin Hilderbrand. Unlock the door to the beach house...a place
where life slows down, people come together, and love is the
strongest force of all. After you've given your baby to strangers,
what do you say when someone asks if you have children?Fourteen
years ago, Melinda Campbell was fifteen and a half, pregnant and
terrified. Desperate to protect her baby from a malicious
grandfather and needed at home to take care of her own critically
ill father, Melinda makes the most generous, heart-wrenching choice
of all: adoption. Now she's living the successful life her father
struggled to give her, but missing her daughter with a longing that
shadows every joy.Jeremy Richmond knows the beach house the way a
painter knows his canvas, intimately and focused on detail. His
life revolves around his adopted daughter, Shiloh, the girl who's
owned his heart from the moment he first held her as an infant.
They were a picture-perfect family until Shiloh was diagnosed with
pediatric lupus and Jeremy's wife walked away.
Eight people, three stories, one incredible year. Alison arrives at the beach house in June to spend a month with her restless grandson before he leaves for his freshman year in college. Over a decade before, Alison lost her beloved husband, and has faced life alone ever since. Now she discovers a new life and possible new love. August brings together four college friends facing a milestone. Across summer's final days, they share laughter, tears, and love--revealing long-held secrets and creating new and even more powerful bonds. World-class wildlife photographer, Matthew, and award-winning war photographer, Lindsey, arrive at the beach house in January, each harboring the very real fear that it will mark the end of their decade-long love affair. Alone in the house's warm peace, they will be forced to truly look at who they are and what they want, discovering surprising truths that will change their lives forever.
The beach house is a peaceful haven, a place to escape everyday problems. Here, three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer. When thirty-year-old Julia, mourning the death of her husband, decides to sell the Santa Cruz beach house they owned together, she sets in motion a final summer that will change the lives of all the families who rent it year after year. Teenaged Chris discovers the bittersweet joy of first love. Maggie and Joe, married sixty-five years, courageously face a separation that even their devotion cannot prevent. The married woman Peter yearns for suddenly comes within his reach. And Julia ultimately finds the strength to rebuild her life--something she once thought impossible. With equal measures of heartbreak and happiness, bestselling author Georgia Bockoven's unforgettable novel tells of the beauty of life and the power of love, and speaks to every woman who has ever clung to a child or loved a man.
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