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Unerringly perceptive, superbly written, every page packed with the warmth and compassionate intelligence which have become Nancy Thayer's trademark, Heat Wave tells the moving tale of a female who, after her apparently perfect life unravels, must find the durability to live a life and love again. Making the startling finding that her family budget are in dire straits is merely the latest distress endured by Carley Winsted after her husband's immediate fatality from a coronary attack. Resisting her in-laws' well-meaning overtures to take in Carley and her two daughters, the young widow instead devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved home, a grand historical house on the island of Nantucket. The solution is right at Carley's front door: changing her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast. Not everyone, however, believes this plan advisable or quite respectable-especially not Carley's mother-in-law. Further complicating a myriad of challenges, a pal makes Carley to keep a key that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships. When her overdue husband's former legislation partner keeps turning up at the most unpredicted times, Carley must deal with an array of mixed feelings. And, during a late-summer heat wave, the lives of Carley and her relatives and buddies will be forever changed in totally unexpected ways. Lyrical, emotional, remarkable, and eventually wonderfully uplifting, Nancy Thayer's latest book is compelling from its first page to its last.
