Summer Rental

by Mary Kay Andrews

Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction...Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia - whose caustic wit covers up her wounds - has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world...though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what each of them needs. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run.
Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month that might just give it to them.

• ISBN10: 0312642695
• ISBN13: 9780312642693
• Publish Date: 7 June 2011
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 October 2012
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: St Martin's Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

Rating: 3.5 Stars

This one took a while for me to get into, but once it hit its groove, I really began enjoying the story. I love the idea of three childhood friends taking a break from their every day lives to spend a month together at the beach. However, each arrives with some big life change looming, and I only really started getting into the story once they started to unload their baggage. I was a real fan of Ellis' romance, and greatly enjoyed the ending. Andrews did a nice job giving me closure on almost every one of the main characters, and these endings were quite lovely.