Beach House for Rent, Mary Alice Monroe
Beach House for Rent, Mary Alice Monroe
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Beach House for Rent

Bestseller

Author: Mary Alice Monroe

Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2017


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house.

When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it’s a win-win by any standard: Cara’s generating income necessary to keep husband Brett’s ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who’s been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted.

It isn’t long, however, before both women’s idyllic summers are altered irrevocably: the alluring shorebirds—and the man who rescues them—begin to draw Heather out of the shell she’s cultivated toward a world of adventure, and maybe even love; at the same time, Cara’s life reels with sudden tragedy, and she wishes only to return to the beach house that had once been her port amidst life’s storms. When Heather refuses to budge from her newfound sanctuary, so begins the unlikeliest of rooming situations. While they start out as strangers, as everything around the women falls apart they learn that the only thing they can really rely on is each other.

And, like the migrating shorebirds that come to the island for the summer, these two women of different generations must rediscover their unique strengths so by summer’s end they, too, can take flight in ways they never imagined possible.

About Mary Alice Monroe

Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven books, including the bestselling The Beach House series. Monroe also writes children’s picture books, and a middle grade fiction series called The Islanders. She is a member of the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame, and her books have received numerous awards, including the South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing; the South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence; the SW Florida Author of Distinction Award; the RT Lifetime Achievement Award; the International Book Award for Green Fiction; the Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award; and her novel, A Lowcountry Christmas, won the prestigious Southern Prize for Fiction. The Beach House is a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, starring Andie MacDowell. Several of her novels have been optioned for film. She is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. Monroe is also an active conservationist and serves on several boards. She lives on the South Carolina coast, which is a source of inspiration for many of her books. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe is a 2017 Gallery Books publication. I’ve been dying to sink my teeth into this latest installment in the ‘Beach House’ series by Mary Alice Monroe! I’ve never been disappointed by one of MAM’s novels, but this one is especially poignant and is simply storytellin......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn

Beach House for Rent is #4 in Mary Alice Monroe's Beach House series. I hadn't read the previous books so I can say this is a very good stand alone, and I am sure lovers of the series would also relish this beautiful addition to it. The characters: Cara is just turning fifty and she is having a life c......more

Goodreads review by Dale

Cara Rutledge rents the beach house inherited from her mother, Lovie, to Heather Wyatt for the summer. The income will help Cara and her husband Brett keep the ecotourism boat in business. The younger woman, Heather, who until this point has been has been living at home with her father and his recen......more