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Things to Do When It's Raining by Marissa Stapley

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Also by Marissa Stapley:

The Lightning Bottles, October 2024
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The Last Resort, June 2019
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Things to Do When It's Raining, February 2018
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THINGS TO DO WHEN IT'S RAINING
By: Marissa Stapley

Graydon House
February 2018
On Sale: February 6, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 1525899015
EAN: 9781525899010
Kindle: B073B5RYT7
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

When secrets tear love apart, can the truth mend it? Mae Summers has it all: a loving fiancé, Peter, a job at the flourishing company he owns and a beautiful New York City apartment. But Mae’s life shatters when she wakes up one morning to discover Peter gone—leaving only a cryptic note behind him—and the company in shambles, its investments founded on lies. There’s only one place for Mae to go: home to Alexandria Bay, the small tourist town in upstate New York where she was raised by her grandparents in the inn they own. And not all is right in Alex Bay, either: Mae finds her grandmother struggling with dementia, separated from Mae’s grandfather thanks to a terrible secret she never meant to reveal. She also finds Gabe, her childhood best friend who became the love of her young life—now a handsome if brooding adult, working through a private trauma that still haunts him. A lifetime of secrets stands in the way of Mae and her family’s happiness. Home may be where the heart is, but sometimes it takes equal parts love, forgiveness and will to mend that heart.