Sand Castle Bay (An Ocean Breeze Novel)
Three sisters return to seaside North Carolina to help their grandmother clean up hurricane damage in Woods’ newest series after her Sweet Magnolias and Chesapeake Shores books. Explaining that she needed time to find herself in the world, Emily Castle turned down Boone Dorsett’s proposal 10 years earlier. Boone took this to mean she was never coming back to him and married Jenny and had a son before Jenny died of an infection. Now Emily is back, as are the sparks that once flew between them. But now each is professionally successful with businesses on opposite coasts. Can their renewed passion withstand a long-distance romance as well as Boone’s in-laws’ threat to take away his son if he gets back with Emily? Despite a few plot gaps, Woods’ signature gossipy small-town ambience mixed with the worldly complications of high-powered jobs and past heartache make this series opener sure to please readers who enjoy romance novels enriched with feisty but lovable grandmothers, charming children, and sisterly bonds. --Pat Henshaw