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Lyrical emotional dramatic and packed with Nancy Thayerrsquos trademark warmth and wisdom Heat Wave tells the moving story of a woman who after her seemingly perfect life unravels must find the strength to live and love again After her husbandrsquos sudden death Carley Winsted is determined to keep her two daughters in their beloved home on Nantucket To ease the familyrsquos financial strain she decides to transform their grand historic house into a bed-and-breakfast Not everyone however thinks this plan prudent or quite respectablemdashespecially not Carleyrsquos mother-in-law Further complicating a myriad of challenges a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that if revealed will undo families and friendships And her late husbandrsquos former law partner is making Carley confront an array of mixed feelings Then during a late-summer heat wave the lives of Carley and her friends and family will be forever changed in entirely unexpected waysLook for special features inside Join the Circle for author chats and more RandomHouseReadersCirclecom.
About the Author
I grew up in Kansas, surrounded by prairie, but thirty-five years ago I came to Nantucket to visit a friend who introduced me to the love of my life. Charley and I have now lived on Nantucket for 33 years--year-round, as we say, so I have a special feeling for this island and for the people who come here. I love the island most in the winter when the waves crash dramatically on the shore.I have a bachelor's and master's degree in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and I still go to KC often to visit my darling baby sister, who inspires many of the characters in my book. Yes, she is blond, and yes, she is 9 years younger than I am. I still love her.For a few years, I taught freshman English in several states, and had short stories published in literary reviews. My first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in 1980, and started me off on the career I've always wanted. I was a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1980 and in 2015, I received the RT Career Achievement Award. I've published 30 novels--all available on Amazon--including Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, Nantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. A Nantucket Wedding was my 30th. The upcoming Surfside Sisters will be out July, 2019! Champagne for everyone!When I'm not writing novels--all 30 are available on Amazon--I'm walking the beach with my husband or entertaining our 4 grandchildren & their parents & our friends. All my novels are about family and friendships, which I believe are the foundation of a happy, if complicated, life.
