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These Summer Storms

By: Sarah MacLean
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.

"Deliciously impossible to put down."-Jodi Picoult

"Addictive."-Ali Hazelwood

"A gripping inheritance drama, wrapped around a swoony summer romance."-The New York Times Book Review

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS

Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family's name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family's private island, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects and leave the minute the funeral is over.

Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his widow and their grown children a final challenge - an inheritance game designed to humiliate, devastate and unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance.

One week on Storm Island is an impossible task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with dysfunctional chaos: Her older sister's secret love affair. Her brother's incessant mansplaining. Her sister-in-law's unapologetic greed. Her younger sister's obsession with 'vibes'. Her mother's penchant for stirring up competition between her children. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father's enigmatic, unfairly good-looking, second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the week unscathed.

A story about the transformative power of grief, love and family, this luscious novel is at once deliciously clever and surprisingly tender, exploring past secrets, present truths and futures forged in the wake of wild summer storms. Contemporary Family Life Genre Fiction Women's Fiction
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Sarah MacLean brought her impressive character development skills to this contemporary romance. I hope very much that this is the first of a series, because, although it did not end with a cliffhanger, I am still very much intrigued to find out what happens next for the Storm family.

Engrossing drama and love story

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She can't go wrong! Loved this story about family, grief, love, and relationships 😍
The narrators were also great to listen too!

Love anything by Sarah MacLean!

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SO good! More please Ms Maclean. I hope there are many more of your full bodied, messy characters in my listening future along with the satisfying reciprocity of feelings for some.

Characters with vivid personalities and riveting responses to the plot.

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Another triumph for narrator Julia Whelan. A layered and engrossing story of dysfunctional families. The development of each character was good too. Sarah Maclean did a great job with this story.

Great read!

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Predictable, repetitious, tacky, overly thirsty, unrealistic, boring. Do not read if you value your limited attention and time on this earth.

Truly terrible

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