When the great New England hurricane of 1938 makes landfall near the end, it feels less like a natural disaster and more like a convenient way to get the most problematic characters out of the way so true love can prevail. Only now ex-fiance Nick and ex-bestie Budgie are Mr. It’s through Budgie that Lily meets Nicholson Greenwald, handsome, smart, charming. Add in a betrayal between friends, a marriage for money, and a Yankee pitcher, and it’s a perfect storm.īorn into post-Depression New York society, innocent, steadfast Lily Dane and fast, jazzy Budgie Byrne are best friends.
Summer of 1938: A scandalous love triangle and a famous hurricane converge in a New England beach community. fast-paced love story…the scorching sun illuminates a friend’s betrayal and reignites a romance. She now lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. Currently-lives in Greenwich, ConnecticutĪ graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a corporate and communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons.Education-B.A., Stanford University M.B.A., Columbia University.Under the scorching summer sun, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own, which will change their worlds forever. But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations.
Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene, and she insinuates herself back into Lily's friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction.and an alluring acquaintance from their college days, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently married-an event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations. That is, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview. Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.
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