Meet NYT Best Selling Author Brenda Novak, author of The Summer that Changed Everything, at Bethany Beach Books on Saturday, June 7th at 11:00am.

Brenda Novak

About Brenda

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s bestselling author career—catching her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep while she worked as a loan officer. She needed to do something from home and writing was the answer. She sold her first book, OF NOBLE BIRTH, twenty-five years ago to HarperCollins and is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than twelve million books in print, translated into twenty different languages. Her recent titles include THE BOOKSTORE ON THE BEACH, THE SEASIDE LIBRARY, TOURIST SEASON & THE BANNED BOOKS CLUB. She lives with her husband in Sacramento, CA. For more about Brenda, please visit www.brendanovak.com

The Summer that Changed Everything

For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's latest standalone novel brings readers into a charming beach town with a deadly past, one that a disgraced prodigal daughter is returning to delve into.

She returned to prove her father's innocence, but there's no telling what she'll find…

It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three victims—all people she knew—which ruined her life at just seventeen. But now she’s back in Virginia to talk to him, wondering if there’s more to the story of what happened that fateful night.

An old flame, Ford Wagner, makes his own return to North Hampton Beach, fleeing a marriage that seems destined for divorce. He’s wary of Lucy and her digging into the past, but the more time they spend together, the closer they get and the more he finds himself reconsidering the truth behind the death of their mutual friend that summer. Problem is, there are plenty of those in this small coastal town who would prefer things stay quiet…