Bandon Public Library

Every summer the Newton family returns to their home on Nantucket for three months, but when Arch Newton is killed in a plane crash, his widow Beth can barely keep her life, much less her family together, as she tries to continue the family's summer tradition.

The beach house is a peaceful haven, a place to escape everyday problems. Here, three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer. When thirty-year-old Julia, mourning the death of her husband, decides to sell the Santa Cruz beach house they owned together, she sets in motion a final summer that will change the lives of all the families who rent it year after year. Teenaged Chris discovers the bittersweet joy...