Beach House

Pages: 400
Published: 2010
Language: English

After losing her job in Chicago and facing an uncertain future, Caretta Rudland returns home to the family beach house on South Carolina's coast at her mother Lovie's request. What begins as a temporary stay becomes a reckoning with the life she left behind — her relationship with her fiercely independent mother, her bond with local turtle conservationists, and an unexpected connection with Brett Beauchamps, a man from her past who has become part of their small community.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Romantic Emotional Nostalgic

Second Chance Family Saga Slow Burn

Contemporary Romance Women's Fiction Romance

Mary Alice Monroe

New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe found her true calling in environmental fiction when she moved to coastal South Carolina. Already a successful author with six books to her credit, she was captivated by the beauty—and fragility—of her new home. Her experiences living in the midst of a habitat that was quickly changing gave her a strong and important focus for her books. Since then, she has explored the problems of endangered sea turtles (The Beach House), raptors (Skywa...