The Summer Knows

by Sarah E. Pearsall

Slinging fried clams at a dumpy tourist trap in Florida's panhandle and being a single mom was not the future Adrienne Harris envisioned at thirty-one. As a girl, she dreamed of being a chef and spending her life with Quinn Merrit, the rich and handsome boy next door. However, her dreams came crumbling down the summer she turned seventeen, ending with her running away pregnant, heartbroken, and the talk of the town over Lucas Merritt's suicide. Adrienne vowed she would never step foot in Harbor Point again. Her world is upended when Adrienne gets a call that her estranged and eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth Harris, the town's nuisance, has nearly burned down the family's seaside cottage. Adrienne has no choice but to return with her daughter to Harbor Point, breaking her vow. The town wastes no time in thrusting her back into scandal, chaos, and gossip as soon as she arrives. When she unexpectedly comes face to face with Quinn Merritt, the father of her child, Adrienne must face the secrets and lies she holds deep within.  When Harbor Point's local fishmonger Christopher Crane offers Adrienne a chance to be the chef at the fish market her grandfather once owned, Adrienne decides to face the past and her fractured relationships the only way she knows how—through her cooking. Food becomes the language Adrienne uses to attempt to mend and heal the past, present, and future.

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