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Editor's Pick at Amazon! A favorite of many book clubs. Now it's your turn to take a look at this 2021 winner!

“Are they supposed to be happy or sad? I mean, is it a celebration of the people who made it, or a memorial to the ones who didn't?”
― Jane Harper, The Survivors

Honestly, Jane Harper has a way of putting the cozy and the raw together to make it so REAL! from the get-go of this novel. Her characters carry a richness of what it's like to live near the beach and to know the heart of family and friends.

“Finn was gone, and he wasn’t coming back. But Kieran still had others in his life. Other people he loved. Mia, reaching out for him, and Audrey, small but with so much ahead. Kieran thought about Verity and Brian, waiting for him at home.”
― Jane Harper, The Survivors

 “As always, Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light.” -The New York Times Book Review

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

Now one of the factors you have to face in this book is how Kier & Mia treat their 3 month old. You might gasp. They might as well have tucked it away in a Kangaroo pouch at times. But then again, it goes to show how even the young get a hard start to sink into. 

There are some things of the past that keep creeping into the present. Of course, there has been a girl washed up on the beach and there is the mystery of how this happened. Truly, the book has a bit of a crime story going for it. Definitely, a summer read, you won't need the beach for.