Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationâand they are carrying more secrets than suitcases.
Maggie is the oldest. She feels responsible for managing the summer house and making sure everything is as it always has been. But sheâs hurt that her parentsâ recent divorce has destroyed the familyâs comfortable summer routines, and her own kids seem to be growing up at high speed. Is it too late to have another baby?
Jess is the middle sister. She loves her job but isnât as passionate about her marriage. Sheâs not sure she can find the courage to tell Maggie what sheâs doneâmuch less talk to her husband about it.
Virgie is the youngest, her dadâs favorite. Sheâs always been the career girl, but now thereâs a man in her life. Her television job on the west coast is beyond stressful, and itâs taking its toll on herâemotionally and physically. Sheâs counting on this vacation to erase the symptoms sheâs not talking about.
The Herington girls are together again, with their husbands and kids, for another summer in the familyâs old Cape Cod house. When their mother, Gloria, announces sheâs coming for an unscheduled visitâwith her new boyfriendâno one is more surprised than their father, Arthur, who has not quite gotten over his divorce. Still, everyone manages to navigate the challenges of living grown-up lives in close quarters, until an accident reveals a new secret that brings everyone together in heartbreakâŠand then healing.
Poignant, compelling, and so real that you could shake the sand out of the pages, The Summer of Good Intentions is by a rising star who aims her fiction square at the heart of readers who love Elin Hilderbrand, Dorothea Benton Frank, and Mary Kay Andrews.