Summer People

The author of The Beach Club and Nantucket Nights, Elin Hilderbrand is a master at putting together a compulsive beach read. In Summer People, her intricate plot links a grieving widow and her teenage twins to a troubled stranger during one healing summer in the pastoral haven of Nantucket. Always a place of peace for the family, their beach house becomes the scene of roiling emotions and turbulent passions as the teens' first loves-as well as a surprising secret from the widow's past-threaten to destroy their family. This novel is as essential as sunscreen for the beach bag.