Few novelists today write with the power to move our hearts, quicken our souls, and enrich our lives like Luanne Rice. In New York Times bestsellers such as Dance with Me, Beach Girls, and The Secret Hour, she vividly captures the dramas that make all the difference in love and families. Now, revisiting the remarkable characters introduced in her bestselling Summer’s Child, she brings full circle one of her most compelling explorations of the human heart…all the many ways it can be broken…and the magic that can make it whole again.

Their lives were a tapestry woven together by love and loss, tragedy and hope. On the windswept coast of Nova Scotia, Lily and her nine-year-old daughter, Rose, are struggling to embrace a new life even as Lily tries to let go of painful memories of the past. Among the lives that will touch theirs are those of Liam Neill, a dedicated teacher living in self-imposed isolation; Maeve Jameson, mourning the loss of a granddaughter she devoted her life to protecting; and Patrick Murphy, a dogged police detective obsessed with a woman who vanished years ago–who may or may not have found what he seeks in a tiny, out-of-the-way maritime village.

During this eventful summer of roses, the paths–and fates–of these unforgettable characters will intersect in ways that none of them could ever expect–and shape a future none of them could possibly foresee. For each of them it will be a time of renewal and transformation that will circle inevitably to a past left behind, a mystery unsolved, and a love reclaimed. Summer of Roses is vintage Luanne Rice–a novel that celebrates the ties of family, the passion of lovers, and the deep, unbreakable bonds that hold us together through all the seasons of our lives.

I found this book on the table in the gym waiting for someone to take and read it.

I brought it home with me as I needed something to read on the plane ride home. I was looking to see what other books I had read by this author and discovered that I read this book in 2009 but did not remember reading it.

The description of this book on Amazon is not that accurate so I have changed a few small things in my first journal entry.

I will probably trade this for another book at my favourite used book store this coming summer.

Traded in this book for ones I have not read yet. Hope the next reader enjoys it as much as I did.

Traded in this book for ones I have not read yet. Hope the next reader enjoys it as much as I did.

Traded in this book for ones I have not read yet. Hope the next reader enjoys it as much as I did.