About the Book
Book: Summer by The Tides
Author: Denise Hunter
Genre: Christian Fiction, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 21, 2019
From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a heartfelt story of family secrets, forgiveness, and unexpected romance.
Following
a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe’s love life is a wreck, and her
restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she
and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea
Haven, North Carolina. Being with uptight Nora and free-spirited Emma at
the place where their family broke apart is a struggle, and
undercurrents of jealousy and resentment threaten to pull the sisters
under. In the midst of the storm, sparks begin to fly between Maddy and
Gram’s maddening neighbor, Connor Murphy.
As
the sisters pack up the family belongings, memories of idyllic,
slow-paced summers are resurrected. But long-buried secrets also come to
light as Maddy discovers that all was not as it appeared that last
summer in Sea Haven—nor today in the seemingly perfect lives of her
sisters.
As
family tensions rise and Connor causes tumult in Maddy’s heart, the
sisters must find a way to accept each other for the women they’ve
become before the bitterness of the past destroys their hope for a
future.
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About the Author
Denise Hunter
is the internationally published bestselling author of more than 25
books, including A December Bride and The Convenient Groom, which have
been adapted into original Hallmark Channel movies. She has won The Holt
Medallion Award, The Reader’s Choice Award, The Carol Award, The
Foreword Book of the Year Award, and is a RITA finalist. When Denise
isn’t orchestrating love lives on the written page, she enjoys traveling
with her family, drinking green tea, and playing drums. Denise makes
her home in Indiana where she and her husband are rapidly approaching an
empty nest. To learn more about Denise, visit her website
DeniseHunterBooks.com; Facebook: AuthorDeniseHunter; Twitter:
@DeniseAHunter; Instagram: deniseahunter.
Read an Excerpt from Summer by the Tides
MADDY MONROE WAS COWERING behind a ficus tree near the hostess
station when her cell phone rang. Her hands shook as she silenced the
phone before it drew the attention of the staff.
She jabbed the elevator button for the third time. “Come on, come
on.” A star could be born in interstellar space, a polar valley carved
by a glacier in the time it took the elevator to reach this floor.
Stairs were not an option, as she was on the twentieth floor of the
Waterford building and sporting heels.
She sniffled. Drat. She seemed to be crying. She swiped a hand under her eyes, heedless of her makeup.
She heard voices, Nick’s boisterous laugh. Maddy shrank deeper into
the ficus and finally, finally, the elevator dinged its arrival.
“Maddy?” Noelle’s concerned voice tunneled down the hall. “Maddy, wait.”
“Oh, come on,” she muttered, tapping her fingers against her leg
until the gold doors crept open. As soon as she could fit, she squeezed
inside and punched the ground-floor button.
She didn’t draw a breath until the doors sealed and the elevator
began to drop. She placed a palm over a heart that was threatening to
beat its way out of her chest. Her white blouse clung to her back, and
her skin prickled beneath her arms.
She closed her eyes, the scene that had just transpired playing out
in fast-forward in her mind. And then, as if that montage weren’t
painful enough, the image of Nick’s face appeared. The look on his face
just before he’d kissed her good-bye last night.
Nick. She clamped her teeth together until her jaw ached.
There had been signs. Many of them, really, she was realizing now.
They ranged from whisper-subtle to neon-sign obvious. But like so many
other walking clichés before her, she was only seeing them in
retrospect.
Maddy opened her eyes to the buttery sunlight streaming through her
blinds. She scrambled for her iPhone to check the time. But as she did
so, the events of yesterday washed over her like a tsunami. She didn’t
have to get up at all, because she didn’t have a job anymore.
Her cell buzzed with an incoming call, and she squinted bleary-eyed at the unfamiliar number on the screen before declining it.
She drooped against her pillow, only now aware of how fat and swollen
her eyes felt. Of the persistent achy lump pushing at the back of her
throat. Her heartbeat made the bed quake. Her eyes burned with tears.
Yesterday’s anger had faded, and something worse had filled its spot.
Yesterday she’d come home, changed into yoga pants, and worked in her
little garden until she was too exhausted to do anything but flop on
the sofa. She hadn’t fallen asleep until after three o’clock in the
morning.
She didn’t want to talk to anyone, didn’t want to see anyone. She
didn’t even want to be awake today. She pulled the covers over her head
and prayed for oblivion.
Required text: Taken from “Summer by the Tides” by Denise Hunter. Copyright © 2019 by Denise Hunter. Used by permission of http://www.thomasnelson.com/.
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Denise is giving away a finished copy of Summer by the Tides!!
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My Thoughts
I wasn't sure what to expect from this novel, Denise tends to surprise me in some way with her writing. This was a easy breezy summer read. I enjoyed the sisters and their issues because-real life. I thought the romance could have been a little better written maybe not so obvious or predictable but otherwise this was a good read. The story line was fun and the setting made me want to go on vacation. Their is food mentioned in this book as well that made my mouth water. I would be curious to read more about the other sister's from this novel as their lives interested me more so than Maddy who is the main character in this book. If you are looking for a fresh summer read this would be a good book to pick up!
"Thanks to the publisher for the free copy. All opinions are my own and I was not required to write a positive review."