The Summer Without You

"Pure escapism" Marie Claire

"The perfect summer read" Novelicious.com

Rowena Tipton isn't looking for a new life, just a new adventure, something to while away the months as her long-term boyfriend presses pause on their relationship before they become engaged. But when a chance encounter at a New York wedding leads to an audition for a coveted houseshare in The Hamptons - Manhattan's elite beach scene - suddenly a new life is exactly what she's got.

Stretching before her is a summer with three eclectic housemates, long days on white sand ocean beaches and parties on gilded tennis courts. But high rewards bring high stakes and Rowena soon finds herself caught in the crossfire of a vicious intimidation campaign. Alone for the first time in her adult life, she has no-one to turn to but a stranger who is everything she doesn't want - but possibly everything she needs.

PRAISE FOR KAREN SWAN

"Deliciously glamorous, irresistibly romantic ..." Hello!

"Hide indoors with a glass of wine and lose yourself in this" Heat

"I loved it ... I was caught on page one and didn't put it down until I finished it" Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House

"Sheer escapism" Bella magazine