If
you are still in need of an easy, breezy summer read…this is perfect. My favorite part of the book is the setting...Maine. There is just something about the tiny New
England state - their coastline and beaches and lobster…perfect.
Book
Description From Publishers Weekly
In this bittersweet debut, Simses tells the story of Ellen
Branford, who sets out to investigate her grandmother's mysterious past and
ends up finding herself. As she lays dying, Ellen's grandmother extracts a
promise from Ellen: that she will deliver a long-overdue apology letter to the
man her grandmother jilted back home in Beacon, Maine, nearly six decades
earlier. After leaving her fiancé in Manhattan, Ellen heads to Beacon and
promptly falls through a rotted pier. A strong rip current catches her and she
is saved from drowning by local boy Roy Cummings, who pulls her to safety and
lands them both on the front page of the local paper, gaining Ellen much
notoriety as the Swimmer. Fighting her budding feelings for Roy, Ellen digs
deeper into her grandmother's past, unearthing not only her grandmother's
jilted hometown crush but also a whole host of new questions. The answers that
come to light will drive Ellen to make a choice that will change the course of
her life. Agent: Deneen Howell, Williams & Connolly. (July)
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