A Summer for the Books: A Novel (Original)

By: Michelle Lindo-Rice

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Synopsis: Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Sunny Hostin will love this emotional dual-timeline novel about two former besties finding their way back to each other.To heal their friendship, they&’ll have to face their past. Jewel Stone has it all—the perfect marriage, a bestselling author career, her dream home—or so she likes everyone to believe. But between her writer&’s block and her husband losing his job, her picture-perfect life is in shambles. And inspiration just isn&’t hitting…until she receives a call she never expected: her former best friend needs her help. When Shelby Andrews wakes up in the hospital after a biking accident, she can&’t remember the last twelve years. She knows she owns a bookstore on the beach, but she has no memory of Lacey, her nineteen-year-old adopted daughter who&’s away for the summer. There&’s only one person who can help Shelby through this—her bestie, Jewel. With so many secrets and heartbreaks between them, Jewel and Shelby haven&’t spoken in years. Yet Jewel can&’t turn away from the friend who doesn&’t remember their fallout. Besides, the best writing she&’s ever done was with Shelby… But when they learn Lacey&’s really spending her summer searching for her birth parents, their tentative reunion might just unravel along with all of their secrets.