The Summer Guests Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times bestselling writer of the Beach House series comes a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are blessed from natural disasters and exactly how, even through the worst of circumstances—or perhaps because of them—we uncover what is most important in life.

Late August is usually a beautiful period within the Southern coast—the peach trees are ripe, the sea is warm, as well as the lovely tea is icy. An ideal time to enjoy the rocking chair for the porch. But beneath about The Summer Guests the calm surface bubbles a threat: it’s also peak hurricane time of year.

When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and SC, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the plantation of their close friends Sophistication and Charles Phillips in NEW YORK: the Phillips’s little girl Moira and her rescue dogs, famed equestrian Javier Angel de la Cruz, makeup artist Hannah McLain, equine breeder Gerda Klug and her child Elise, and isle citizen Cara Rutledge. They provide with them just the few treasured possessions they are able to fit in their vehicles. Strangers to all or any but the Phillips, they must trip out the surprise together.

During the course of one of the most demanding weeks of their lives, romantic relationships are put towards the check as the evacuees are forced to confront the unresolved problems they possess with themselves and with each other. But simply because the storm passes, they recognize that what really issues isn’t what they brought with them to the mountains. Rather, it’s what they’ll consider with them once they leave.

With Mary Alice Monroe’s “usual resplendent storytelling” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Instances bestselling author), The Summer Guests is a poignant and compelling story of self-discovery, like, and redemption.