St. Martin's Press
August 2011
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Featuring: Ellie Calvin; Hutch
272 pages ISBN: 0312610394 EAN: 9780312610395 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband โ between her reality and the woman she wants to be โ she doesnโt quite seem to fit into her own life.
But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellieโs world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her motherโs funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellieโs not sure she can face, until, in the painful midst of going through her motherโs things, she discovers a hidden diary โ and a window into stories buried long ago.
As Ellie and Hutch start speaking for the first time in years, Ellieโs closed heart slowly begins to open. Fighting their feelings, they set out together to dig into Lillianโs history. Using both the diary and a trip to the Summer House, a mysterious and seductive bayside home, they gamble that they can work together and not fall in love again. But in piecing together a decades-old unrequited-love story, they just might uncover the secrets in their own hearts.
Coming Up for Air is the story of one womanโs search for truth โ and what happens when love steps in along the way.
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