A month at the shore - New England Shore Stories - (Kendall and Laura) - Acclaimed USA Today bestselling author Antoinette Stockenberg consistently engages readers with her breathtaking stories of small-town romance tinged with danger. Now she returns with a tale of one woman's struggle to put the past to rest-even as it haunts her every waking moment...A Month for New Beginnings Laura Shore's memories of her Cape Cod childhood are far from fond, mostly serving as a persistent reminder of why she left home in the first place. But now she's back. Her tyrannical father is dead, and his children have banded together to try to salvage the family nursery he ran into the ground. Laura, her younger sister Corinne, and their black-sheep brother, Snack, have given themselves exactly a month to try to get the business on its feet. Developers wait in the wings, eager to purchase the property, while local-boy-made-good Kendall Barclay is there whenever Laura turns around. Kendall's intentions may be honorable, but his attentions are the last thing she's interested in...A Month for Bitter EndingsYet Kendall turns out to be a rock-steady shelter from the storm of publicity that blows in after he makes a shocking discovery on the property. Suddenly a murder investigation is underway, placing the Shores under the scrutiny of village gossips--and someone far more dangerous. Someone who thinks that this secret should have stayed buried. And who will stop at nothing to see that Laura's first visit home in years is also her last... Part family drama, part crime novel and part romance, this book hits lots of high points. The Shores, an old Cape Cod family have operated a family nursery for three generations. The business is failing, partially due to poor management, partly due to bad attitudes and partly due to the taint of a generation old crime of passion that took place on the grounds. Following the death of their very difficult father, brother, Snack and sister, Laura return to help their younger sister Corinne save the business. They all agree to work for one month to see if they can salvage something from the crumbling property and business. Things begin to look up when the unexpected discovery of human remains at the bottom of a compost mound begins a nightmare they are not sure they will recover from. Well written and hard to put down, the author does a good job of establishing her characters and their complexities as well as portraying Cape Cod’s charm and the small town cruelty that sometimes exists in these places.
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Similar themes as all her others. Same concept as Danielle Steele.
—anissa
