'Mary Kay Andrews spins a beach blanket sizzler around three lifelong friends.This warm weather treat has a lot going for it, not least the sunny forecast that summer love can blossom into a four-season commitment.' -Publishers Weekly Review Five people who each need a sea change, and one month that might just give it to them. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run.

After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything hes ever cared about. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though hes hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. A month in North Carolinas Outer Banks is just what each of them needs. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world…though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets.

Julia-whose caustic wit covers up her wounds-has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she cant hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices shes made over the past decade of her life. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction.Ellis, Julia, and Dorie.

Summer rental by mary kay andrews