The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author, Brenda Novak, “Summer on the Island” navigates friendship, family, and ties that connect and follow three friends as they head to a coastal Florida town for the summer.
Marlo Madsen has just been through a global pandemic that turned her life—and the lives of almost everyone she knows—upside down. Her beloved father has died from COVID. Helping her mother, who has MS, handle his estate means returning to the small coastal Florida town where she was raised.
Having just left her job as a divorce attorney—which paid well but showed her too much of the worst in people—she’s invited two friends to join her for a seaside summer. The two friends are also facing huge life changes after the worsening California wildfires took everything from them, and need to decompress and recuperate. And travel has long been forbidden, so they are beyond appreciative of the ability to escape.
Unfortunately, a restful summer doesn’t seem to be in the cards, especially when Marlo learns about a special provision in her father’s will that reveals he has a love child with Rosemarie, the housekeeper who’s worked for the family for years. Rosemarie’s son was around while Marlo was growing up, but she never suspected a thing. Nobody did. And once the news is revealed, the fallout will cause waves big enough to topple two families and a whole community.
Brenda Novak has authored over sixty novels, and is a five-time nominee for the RITA Award, and has won the National Reader’s Choice, the Bookseller’s Best, the Bookbuyer’s Best, among other awards. She runs and dedicates much of her time to Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity to raise money for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). As of 2022, she’s raised over $2.5 million. Check out more about Brenda at her website.
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