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The Beach House: Coming Home

by Georgia Bockoven
Harper. May 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780062388988. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062388995. F
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Melinda Campbell was a young teen from Kentucky's coal mine region when she gave up her baby daughter to Jeremy Richmond and his wife, Tess. For 13 years, she has dreamed of seeing her little girl again. When Melinda is contacted unexpectedly by Jeremy, it is because his daughter Shiloh has pediatric lupus and is expressing a strong desire to meet her birth mother. Melinda breaks from her high-powered career and travels to Santa Cruz, CA, to a cozy beach house where she begins a thorny relationship with Jeremy and works to create a rapport with her daughter, both of whom cannot understand how a woman could ever give up her infant for adoption. The soothing, natural beach setting contrasts with Melinda's poverty-stricken past, Shiloh's illness, and Jeremy's new legal woes brought on by Tess, who abandoned Shiloh five years earlier.
VERDICT Bockoven's second "Beach House" novel weaves a lovely tapestry depicting the many threads that form a life. With a focus on family, relationships, loss, and reconciliation, along with a pleasing hint of romance, this novel will appeal to fans of Luanne Rice and Elin Hilderbrand.
Reviewed by Gloria Drake, Oswego P.L. Dist., IL , May 01, 2017
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