Beach Club, the Book

Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors...Mack Peterson escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can't stay hidden... Love O'Donnell, a glamorous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her daring plan...to find a man to make her pregnant... Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most... Cecily Elliott, the owner's daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents' hearts. Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about desperate desire...and about the storm coming that will change everything...AUTHORBIO: ELIN HILDERBRAND is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a teaching-writing fellow.Her short fiction has appeared in Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and The Colorado Review.She lives year-round on Nantucket Island with her husband, Chip Cunningham, who manages the Cliffside Beach Club and their son. This is her first novel.