The beach house / Rochelle Alers.

By:

Alers, Rochelle

Material type: Text

9781496721884
1496721888

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Genre/Form:

Romance fiction.

Subject: It's been almost a year since Leah Berkley Kent left her lavish Richmond home to spend two months on Coates Island, North Carolina. There she found friendship with two extraordinary women, Kayana and Cherie. Together they formed a summer book club, meeting weekly at the Seaside Café. Leah also found the courage to finally stand up to Alan, her domineering husband of twenty-eight years. With her twin sons now grown, Leah decides to return to Coates Island again this summer. Alan's explosive reaction only convinces her that her marriage, and her old life, may be ending. But what comes next? Helping out at the Seaside Café, Leah grows closer to Kayana's widowed brother, Derrick. He knows what it's like to start over--he traded a Wall Street career for a beachfront house and a slower pace. Derrick is drawn to Leah, but wonders if she's truly ready to move on.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	Adult Fiction	FIC ALERS	Available	pap ed.		36748002493940

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Over the course of one summer spent on an idyllic island off the coast of North Carolina, a weekly book club offers three very different women the chance to rewrite their own stories. In bestselling author Rochelle Alers' second Book Club novel,a new chapter begins as one woman's seemingly perfect life unravels...

It's been almost a year since Leah Berkley Kent left her lavish Richmond home to spend two months on Coates Island, North Carolina. There she found friendship with two extraordinary women, Kayana and Cherie. Together they formed a summer book club, meeting weekly at the Seaside Café. Leah also found the courage to finally stand up to Alan, her domineering husband of twenty-eight years. With her twin sons now grown, Leah decides to return to Coates Island again this summer. Alan's explosive reaction only convinces her that her marriage, and her old life, may be ending. But what comes next? Helping out at the Seaside Café, Leah grows closer to Kayana's widowed brother, Derrick. He knows what it's like to start over--he traded a Wall Street career for a beachfront house and a slower pace. Derrick is drawn to Leah, but wonders if she's truly ready to move on.

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Booklist Review

The second book in the Book Club series by popular and prolific African American author Alers, following The Sea Café (2020), focuses on prodigy Leah Kent. After graduating high school at 15 and Vanderbilt University on a full academic scholarship at 18, Leah is pursued and seduced by a prominent Richmond attorney who is twice her age. Pregnant with twins, Leah marries him and lives a life of wealth but no freedom. Thirty years later, after being hospitalized after a nearly fatal beating by her husband, Leah heads to Coates Island off the coast of North Carolina to rejoin her friend Kayana Johnson, co-owner of a café. Kayana, newly married, offers Leah the use of the apartment over the café, and sparks soon fly between Leah and Derrick, Kayana's widowed brother and business partner. While there are lovely descriptions of clothing, home furnishings, and delectable food, a discussion among Leah and two book club members is one of the tale's most enjoyable aspects. Novels by Tracey Livesay, Brenda Jackson, and Reese Ryan offer other steamy romances featuring affluent multicultural characters.