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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


The Second Home by Christina Clancy

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Also by Christina Clancy:

The Snowbirds, February 2026
Trade Paperback
The Snowbirds, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Second Home, July 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Shoulder Season, July 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Shoulder Season, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Second Home, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Second Home, June 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

The Second Home
Christina Clancy

St. Martin's Griffin
June 2021
On Sale: June 8, 2021
384 pages
ISBN: 1250239621
EAN: 9781250239624
Kindle: B07XBBXJWS
Trade Size / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (June 2020), Mass Market Paperback (July 2022)

Contemporary Women's Fiction

"A novel of family and place and belonging." ––Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist

"Tender and suspenseful." ––Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author

Some places never leave you...

After a disastrous summer spent at her family’s home on Cape Cod when she is seventeen, Ann Gordon is very happy to never visit Wellfleet again. If only she’d stayed in Wisconsin, she might never have met Anthony Shaw, and she would have held onto the future she’d so carefully planned for herself. Instead, Ann ends up harboring a devastating secret that strains her relationship with her parents, sends her sister Poppy to every corner of the world chasing waves (and her next fling), and leaves her adopted brother Michael estranged from the family.

Now, fifteen years later, her parents have died, and Ann and Poppy are left to decide the fate of the beach house that’s been in the Gordon family for generations. For Ann, the once-beloved house is forever tainted with bad memories. And while Poppy loves the old saltbox on Drummer Cove, owning a house means settling, and she’s not sure she’s ready to stay in one place.

Just when the sisters decide to sell, Michael re-enters their lives with a legitimate claim to a third of the estate. He wants the house. But more than that, he wants to set the record straight about what happened that long-ago summer that changed all of their lives forever. As the siblings reunite after years apart, their old secrets and lies, longings and losses, are pulled to the surface. Is the house the one thing that can still bring them together––or will it tear them apart, once and for all?

Told through the shifting perspectives of Ann, Poppy, and Michael, this assured and affecting debut captures the ache of nostalgia for summers past and the powerful draw of the places we return to again and again. It is about second homes, second families, and second chances. Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.

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