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A heartbreaking affair,
an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer
on the Cape in this powerful debut.
Seven summers
ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a
married father of two. But on the same night their romance
abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered--and their
lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil
died soon after, an uncharged suspect.
Now divorced
and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone,
mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil's grown son, Jed,
returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in
years. One day he finds a woman's bathing suit buried in a
closet--a relic, unbeknownst to him, of his father's
affair--and, on a hunch, confronts Marcella. When they fall
into an affair of their own, their passion temporarily masks
the pain of the past, but also leads to crises and
revelations they never could have imagined.
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