The Beach Club

A summer at a Nantucket Beach Club is the setting for a number of human crises depicted in this meaty first book by a gifted young author. It's about summer love, summertime love, and the unique summertime sentiments we all have for that specific summer location—a hotel and an island, in this instance.Twelve summers have been spent working at The Beach Club for hotel manager Mack Petersen. This summer is unlike any other. In the spring, Bill Elliot, the hotel's owner and employer, turns in with fresh expectations. Mack's love Maribel is pressuring him to tie the knot, and in a horrific incident, Vance, the African-American bellhop, who has detested Mack for robbing him of his job 12 years before, threatens him. Mack is aware that something must give.Fresh off the slopes of Aspen, Love O'Donnell, the new front desk employee, is frantically looking for a stranger to father her kid. Jem Crandall, the bellhop, was on his way to Los Angeles to get into the agency business when he fell in love with Maribel. Mr. November was his college calendar identity. When a storm threatens to destroy The Beach Club and all it stands for, emotions are at their highest.A captivating and seductive book that transports you to the beach at any time of year.