num_pages: 384
description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one familys summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world.Its been sixteen years since Caretta Cara Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston South Carolina. Over those years she has weathered the tides of deaths and births struggles and joys. And now as Cara prepares for her second wedding her life is about to change yet again.Meanwhile the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Caras niece Linnea returns to Sullivans Island to begin a new career and an unexpected relationship. Linneas parents having survived bankruptcy pin their hopes and futures on the construction of a new home on Ocean Boulevard. But as excitement over the house and wedding builds a devastating illness strikes the family and brings plans to a screeching halt. It is under these trying circumstances that the Rutledge family must come together yet again to discover the enduring strength in love tradition and legacy from mother to daughter to granddaughter.Like the sea turtles that come ashore annually on these windswept islands three generations of the Rutledge family experience a season of return rebirth and growth.
language: English
title: On Ocean Boulevard
publisher: Gallery Books