These Summer Storms
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4.2 • 22 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
'Deliciously impossible to put down' JODI PICOULT
'Powerful, tragic, and beautiful. Is there anything Sarah MacLean can't do?' ASHLEY POSTON
From bestselling author Sarah MacLean comes a sharp, sexy novel about a family's long-overdue reckoning with hidden desires, destructive secrets . . . and one week that threatens to tear them apart.
Alice Storm isn't like her siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, and their billions, she walked away, building a life beyond her family's reach. Nothing could induce her to come back. Nothing except the shocking death of her father.
Now back on the family's private island off the Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects, and leave.
But her father had other plans.
The manipulative patriarch left behind a final challenge: an inheritance game designed to unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules are simple: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance.
But a week on Storm Island may destroy Alice. The family home seethes with dysfunction, and then there's Jack Dean-her father's infuriatingly attractive second-in-command, watching her every move.
Alice just wants to survive the week. But the Storm legacy isn't done with her yet.
'Money, sex, and intrigue . . . unputdownable from beginning to end' CHRISTINA LAUREN
'From the first rumbles of thunder to the torrential downpour, MacLean takes readers for a wild ride!' ABBY JIMENEZ
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Romance novelist MacLean (Knockout) delivers a clever tale of a woman whose life is upended by her late billionaire father's last wishes. Alice Storm, a New York City public school teacher who's estranged from her family, returns to her childhood home in Rhode Island after her father, Franklin, dies in a hang-gliding accident. At the train station in nearby Wickford, she strikes up a conversation with a handsome tattooed stranger and spends the night with him. The next morning, after taking a skiff to the family's private island, she's greeted by her overbearing mother and three siblings, and is shocked to re-encounter the stranger, who turns out to be Jack Dean, Franklin's managing director and fixer, whom her family detests. He's there to give them the terms of their inheritance—a set of tasks each of them must follow if they are to receive any of Franklin's wealth. Alice's directive sounds simple—stay on the island for the whole week—but proves difficult because she and her family despise each other. Though furious that Jack didn't tell her who he was, she slowly falls for him over the course of the week, while bracing for another surprise from Franklin. MacLean sets a brisk pace and seamlessly blends family drama with a winning love story. It's perfect for the beach bag.
