Laura Wool’s Beach Reads

Laura Wool, our Homebound Librarian who provides library materials to residents of Falmouth who are unable to travel to the library, has complied a list of her favorite beach reads this summer. Check out her reading list below!
This Summer will be Different by Carley Fortune
“When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she’s never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.”
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
“Charlie was 19 when Alice took his photo near her Nan’s cottage in Barry’s Bay, but now he’s a grown-up flirt who makes Alice feel seventeen again—warm nights on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but she begins to worry for her heart.”
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
“It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight.”
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
“Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He’s a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and out at the couple’s lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. When Kelly is found brutally stabbed to death, Sarah must take on her hardest case yet, defending her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress”
A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner
“In her return to Provincetown after a best-selling novel exposes local secrets, an author returns to her idyllic Cape Cod hometown to face her betrayal but rediscovers her passion and community through a summer managing a friend’s bookstore.”
Beach Vibes by Susan Malley
“Beth’s idyllic life running her Malibu beach shop unravels when she discovers her brother’s infidelity and must make a moral decision threatening her newfound happiness and forcing her to choose between love and loyalty.”
The Summer that Changed Everything by Brenda Novak
“It’s been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair sat in a courtroom and watched her father be sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three victims–all people she knew–which ruined her life at just seventeen. But now she’s back in Virginia to talk to him, wondering if there’s more to the story of what happened that fateful night. Problem is, there are plenty of those in this small coastal town who would prefer things stay quiet . . .”
Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey
“When Charlotte Sitterly’s husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of their house by the FBI. Cut off from her bank accounts and feeling desperate, Charlotte takes up an acquaintance’s offer to stay at a beachfront former bed-and-breakfast that’s home to a community of single mothers and draws plenty of gossip in the small coastal North Carolina town. Charlotte and Iris find solace but when the women discover a secret link between them, it changes everything they thought they knew about the unconventional family they’ve created and leaves them wondering whether their coming together was a coincidence at all.”