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WINNER OF THE 2018 NANCY PEARL BOOK AWARD
BESTSELLING AUTHOR NAN Rossiter brings together characters from her acclaimed novel Nantucket in a powerful, heartwarming love story that bridges past and present.
When Liam Tate was seven years old, his Uncle Cooper opened his heart and his Nantucket home to the boy. In the intervening decades, Liam has found both love and loss on the island and, since learning that he has a son, Levi, a new kind of happiness. Yet one piece of his family history remains elusive—the long-ago romance between his uncle and Sally Adams. Now Sally makes a revelation that sets the whole town abuzz: she’s publishing a book about what happened during the summer when she and Cooper first met, painting a picture so vivid it feels like yesterday.
In 1969, recently discharged veteran Winston Ellis Cooper III landed on Nantucket with only a duffel bag and a bottle of Jack Daniels. He found a sparsely furnished beach cottage, about as far from Vietnam as he could get. But even here, Cooper couldn’t withdraw from the world entirely. Especially once his eyes met Sally’s in the flickering lights of a summer dance. The effects of that fiery affair can still be felt decades later. As the story unfolds, there are new lessons for all to learn about life’s triumphs and heartaches, and about loving enough to let go.
Also by Nan Rossiter
Summer Dance
Firefly Summer
Nantucket
Under a Summer Sky
More Than You Know
Words Get in the Way
The Gin & Chowder Club
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Digital Edition FEBRUARY 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-291774-4
Version 12182019
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291773-7
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