Romance/Erotica Book Review: The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak. Mira, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6105-3
Bookshop Shocking family secrets and sweet second chances animate this stellar small-town contemporary from Novak (the Whiskey Creek series). Autumn Divac has spent the last 18 months searching for her husband, who disappeared while on assignment for the FBI. Now struggling to move on, she and her teenage children, Taylor and Caden, return to Sable Beach, Va., to spend the summer with Autumnâs mom, Mary, and work at Maryâs beachfront bookstore. Also back in town is Autumnâs high school sweetheart, the recently divorced Quinn Vanderbilt. Quinn is dealing with his motherâ...