These Summer Storms
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- 6,49 €
Publisher Description
Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family's name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family's private island, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects and leave the minute the funeral is over.
Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his widow and their grown children a final challenge - an inheritance game designed to humiliate, devastate and unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance.
One week on Storm Island is an impossible task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with dysfunctional chaos: Her older sister's secret love affair. Her brother's incessant mansplaining. Her sister-in-law's unapologetic greed. Her younger sister's obsession with 'vibes'. Her mother's penchant for stirring up competition between her children. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father's enigmatic, unfairly good-looking, second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the week unscathed.
A story about the transformative power of grief, love and family, this luscious novel is at once deliciously clever and surprisingly tender, exploring past secrets, present truths and futures forged in the wake of wild summer storms.
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.
