Find My Way Home

Summers’s debut romance displays a full set of 1950s stereotypes despite an ostensibly present-day setting. The plot is a familiar take on familiar themes: rich, commitment-averse tennis star Keith Morgan moves to small-town in North Carolina for the sake of his daughter, Maddie, and experiences an unwilling surge of lust for the local “Betty Boop,” interior designer (“decorator implied a bored housewife”) Bertie Anderson, who’s selected by Keith’s elderly aunt to “make a comfortable, beautiful home for Maddie.” Divergent goals, miscommunication, and lack of common interests notwithstanding, Keith and Bertie are overwhelmed by libido. The basic requirements of an amusing beach read are fulfilled, but a pervasive sense of having entered a time warp may leave readers wondering whether they’ve picked up a science fiction novel instead. Agent: Nicole Resciniti, Seymour Agency. (July)