The inheritance left by her father draws Emily into reactivating his business including fund-raising through corporate donations tied to federal expenditures. Her agreement to administer the spending from the inherited offshore bank accounts pulls her into the underworld of subversive activity related to the Middle East conflict and the prisoners held at the Guantnamo Bay prison in Cuba. Emilys determination to adhere to her fathers principles of limiting spending to humanitarian efforts leads to charges of subversive activity as she uncovers details around her fathers sudden death. Emilys conflict with her mother over the beach property forces her into liaisons and investments to protect The Beach House, her sanctuary for her and her child, Susan.
You've given everything to your job. Now you're giving everything to your mother. When are you going to take a minute to stop and look at what you need to give to yourself? Something's askew here and if you keep up that.
In bestselling author Rochelle Alers' second Book Club novel, a new chapter begins as one woman's seemingly perfect life unravels.
The Beach House reveals the secret lives of celebrities in a breathtaking drama of revenge-with a finale so shocking that only James Patterson could have written it.
The author of The Garden Entertaining Cookbook serves up a delicious assortment of more than seventy-five easy-to-prepare recipes for sensational dishes for beachfront meals, including appetizers, soups, sandwiches, main courses, salads, ...
But with Lee's new girlfriend, Rachel, coming along this summer, can everything stay the same? Elle's determined to have one last perfect summer with her two favorite boys--before she kisses the beach house goodbye forever. . . .
“[A] poignant tale of opportunities lost and regained…This emotional romance is an easy choice to throw in the beach bag.”—Publishers Weekly USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with the ultimate beach read, as one ...
... sea reflected the mood of the sky—sometimes dark, turbulent, and gloomy, other times a soft, introspective gray-blue. Today the water was the color of unbridled joy and hope, a blue so vivid the horizon line disappeared where sea ...
The New York Times bestselling author and “skilled storyteller who never lets her readers down” (Huffington Post) returns to her beloved Beach House series with this “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York ...
After placing an ad for summer rentals touting water views, direct access to the beach, and a sexagenarian roommate, Nan’s once quiet house is soon full of noise, laughter, and the occasional bout of tears.
I painted it,” she said, surprised that, though chipped, bits of the blue color remained on the wood. “It's haint blue.” “what's haint blue?” “Remember how I was telling you about all the spiritualism and voodoo stories that grow as ...