Lisa Jackson, Cathy Lamb, Holly Chamberlin, and Rosalind Noonan. Kensington, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6563-0
In this satisfying and often heartwrenching anthology that is not your typical cheery beach read, four authors explore the topic of lost love and the magical qualities of unexpected second chances. In Lamb’s “June’s Lace,” a lawyer turned wedding...
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Holly Chamberlin, Author . Kensington $14 (323p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1405-8
Chamberlin (Tuscan Holiday
) misses the mark with this repetitive chronicle of driven career-gal Becca Rowan’s quest to tell her 16-year-old niece, Rain, that Becca is actually her birth mother. Raised by Becca’s older brother, David,...
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Holly Chamberlin, Kensington, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3506-0
Larchmere, a seaside estate in Ogunquit, Maine, becomes a bone of contention for its possible heirs in Chamberlin's predictable but pleasant latest (after One Week in December). Bill McQueen's adult children worry that Dad's much younger girlfriend,
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Holly Chamberlin. Kensington, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3508-4
Friends are forever in this exploration of bullying—a troubling hot-button topic that comes into shocking focus here for two families torn apart by a heartless clique of mean girls. Sweet and sensitive Rosie, an only child, spirals into a dangerous...
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Holly Chamberlin. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1363-6
Chamberlain’s ponderous latest (after A Summer Love Affair) follows four women over the course of a summer as they share a house in Maine. Sandra Pennington, recently widowed, hopes to alleviate her loneliness by opening her four-bedroom home to...
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