At age ten Darcy finally found a permanent home full of love (and books) with her grandmother on the island of Nantucket. As an adult, her college studies, and then her husband kept her away, but after getting divorced and then inheriting her gorgeous childhood home, Darcy has returned. She's enjoying her job as a children's librarian and dating a handsome new guy. Then her ex-husband rents the house next door, and she gets tangled up in his life along with the lives of the summer visitors. Darcy and the new neighbors she befriends have to navigate some tough situations, and she suddenly has to choose among three love interests. However, with two of the men trying to force themselves on her and one issuing an ultimatum for her to choose him or her house, some readers might think she could do much better than any of them. Darcy does select one and gets her happily ever after, but a little less rationalizing of their bad behavior would have made it a much sweeter ending.
VERDICT Thayer's (The Island House) latest beach read once again captures the allure of Nantucket but stumbles a bit with the romance.
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