A Summer Affair

Claire Danner Crispin raises four young children on Nantucket and works as a glassblower with a national reputation. When she agrees to co-chair the island's Children Summer Gala, she takes on far more than her calendar can hold.

Part of the reason she gets the job is her past: she dated rock star Max West in high school, and he agrees to play the event. That makes the gala look easy at first. Then Claire promises a museum-quality piece of glass for the auction, hands her best friend the catering contract, and starts a running feud with her co-chair, a socialite from Manhattan.

The pressure builds on a second front. Claire begins what she thinks of as a good-hearted affair with Lockhart Dixon, the charity's Executive Director, and the secret sits beside her marriage, her children and her work.

This novel of contemporary women's fiction unfolds over one island summer and follows a single woman juggling an old love, a new attraction, family, a business and the demands of a charity circuit. Expect a story that starts light and social and grows more tense as the choices pile up, with hearts breaking along the way.