Under summer skies, New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods evokes family, friendship and heartfelt emotion
With her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately sheâd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than in New York with agents and actors. Though she vows not to let her teenage crush on Ethan Cole influence her decision, itâs hard to ignore her feelings for the local war hero.
Ethan lost more than his leg in Afghanistan. He lost his belief in love. Even being surrounded by couples intent on capturing happily-ever-after wonât open this jaded doctorâs heart. Itâs going to take a sexy, determined womanâone who wonât take no for an answer.
Praise for the novels of
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Sherryl Woods
âSherryl Woods gives her characters depth, intensity
and the right amount of humor.â âRT Book Reviews
âSherryl Woods writes emotionally satisfying novels about family, friendship and home. Truly feel-great reads!â
â#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
âWoods really knows what readers have come to expect
from her stories, and she always gives them what they want. Here, she pens another great love story populated with funny, witty and charming characters, written with great care.â âRT Book Reviews on Where Azaleas Bloom
âWoods knows how to paint a vivid picture that encourages the reader to feel the emotions of her charactersâ¦
everyone will be able to relate to this book.â âRT Book Reviews on Catching Fireflies
âCharming characters combine to create the interfering yet lovable OâBrien familyâ¦a satisfying, heartwarming conclusion to the Chesapeake Shores series.â
âRT Book Reviews on The Summer Garden
âLove, marriage, family and forgiveness all play an important part in Woodsâs latest richly nourishing, holiday-spiced novel.â
âChicago Tribune on A Chesapeake Shores Christmas
âSparks fly in a lively tale that is overflowing with family conflict and warmth and the possibility of rekindled love.â
âLibrary Journal on Flowers on Main
âWoodsâs readers will eagerly anticipate her trademark
small-town setting, loyal friendships and honorable mentors as they meet new characters and reconnect with familiar ones in this heartwarming tale.â âBooklist on Home in Carolina
Dear Friends,
Most of us have come to accept that dreams change as we go through life. Sometimes this is the product of maturity and new life experiences. Sometimes weâre simply forced to accept a harsh new reality.
Thatâs the case with both Samantha Castle and Ethan Cole in Sea Glass Island. But while Ethan has embraced his new life running a small emergency clinic on the North Carolina coast, Samantha is still struggling to find a new focus for her future. She knows only that the acting career she once dreamed of is no longer as successful or fulfilling as sheâd hoped. As readers have come to know, Sand Castle Bay is the perfect place to reevaluate goals and ambitions. And thanks to a little nudge from their grandmother, itâs also been the ideal place for the Castle sisters to find love.
I hope youâll enjoy this final installment of the Ocean Breeze trilogy and that Samanthaâs story will remind you that thereâs often a newâand unexpectedâdream right around the corner, if only you open your heart to the possibilities.
All best,
Sherryl Woods
1
Samantha plunged a spoon into a pint of Ben & Jerryâs Cherry Garcia, then sighed as the decadent ice cream melted in her mouth. Guilty pleasures like this were about all that kept her going these days. With enough Ben & Jerryâs came hope that her acting career would pick up. A positive attitude had helped her to weather tough times in the past, after all.
It was getting harder and harder to believe, though. The silence of her phone lately had been deafening. In late spring, sheâd had a minor role in a prime-time TV show that filmed in New York, but it hadnât led to other opportunities despite the enthusiasm of the director and the producers. Fall season shows were back in production, but sheâd received none of the promised job offers, not even for bit parts.
She hadnât had a single callback for a commercial in weeks. If it werenât for her job as a hostess at a high-priced Upper East Side restaurant, sheâd be in the most serious financial trouble sheâd faced since coming to New York over fifteen years ago. Even with that, sheâd had to dip into her savings already.
Though her sister Gabriella had mounted a terrific PR buzz campaign for her back in the spring, its effects had worn off in weeks, rather than months, and now, once again, she was struggling. Sheâd worn out her list of contacts. But with everything going on in Gabiâs life these days, Samantha hadnât felt she could ask for more free publicity assistance. Gabi was adjusting to being a single mom and trying to work things out with the very patient man in her life, whoâd agreed to postpone their own wedding until after their sister Emilyâs in a few weeks.