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Sometimes when you need a change in your life the tide just happens to pull you in the right directionxEllis Julia and Dorie Best friends since Catholic grade school they now find themselves in their mid-thirties at the crossroads of life and love 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 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 And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the worldxthough this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets A month in North Carolinas Outer Banks is just what they each of them needsTy Bazemore is their landlord though hes hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread 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 Maryn Shackleford is a stranger and a woman on the run Maryn needs just a few things in life no questions a good hiding place and a new identity Ellis Julia and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants can they also provide what she needs Mary Kay Andrews novel is the story of five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness Five people who each need a sea change and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to themSummer Rental is one of Library Journals Best Womens Fiction Books of.



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Mary Kay Andrews

MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels (including Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Christmas Bliss; Ladies' Night; Spring Fever; and Summer Rental, all from St. Martin's Press, as well as Savannah Breeze; Blue Christmas; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues, all Harper Collins) , and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia (go Dawgs!) . After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction. Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by twelve more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese.She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in two restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn and Ebbtide - both named after fictional places in Mary Kay's novels, and both available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. In between cooking, spoiling her grandkids, and plotting her next novel, Mary Kay is an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses.



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