These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

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These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

Contemporary fiction

These Summer Storms

by Sarah MacLean

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Think your family has drama? The Storms may have you beat with their twisted inheritance games and summertime antics.

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Synopsis

Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything.

Alice plans to keep her head down, pay her final respects (such as they are), and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his family a final challenge—an inheritance game designed to upend their world. The rules are clear: spend one week on the island, complete their assigned tasks, and receive the inheritance.

But a whole week on Storm Island is no easy task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with chaos: Her older sister’s secret love affair. Her brother’s unyielding arrogance. Her younger sister’s constant analysis of the vibes. Her mother’s cold judgment. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father’s intriguing and too-handsome second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape unscathed.

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These Summer Storms

CHAPTER 1

There was something about trains.

If she marked the minutes of her life, Alice Storm would not be surprised to discover that she’d spent nearly a third of them in transit:

  • The shiny crimson bicycle that had been her seventh-­birthday present and most prized possession, until her brother had sent it flying into Narragansett Bay, never to be recovered.
  • The white rowboat her father had captained into that same salty sea every Saturday in July for her entire childhood, because he insisted on facing nature as God intended.
  • The endless line of nondescript black town cars with silent drivers that ferried her from private school to private art classes to the Storm family’s Park Avenue penthouse, New York City muffled and dim beyond the window.
  • The skateboard she’d ridden into a tree one Sunday morning during her first year at Amherst—­determined to prove herself a completely ordinary eighteen-­year-­old—resulting in an arm broken in three places.
  • The helicopter that airlifted her to Boston to be pinned back together and returned her to school in time for a nine A.M. Art History midterm, before her classmates could discover there was nothing ordinary about her.
  • The private jets that took her around the globe whenever her father issued an international summons on a whim.
  • The commercial jet that had taken her to Prague eighteen months earlier, diamond ring tucked into her boyfriend’s carry-on bag.
  • The subway car she’d been on that afternoon when her phone had rung and stolen her breath—Incoming call . . . Elisabeth Storm (never Mom)—all beige walls and harsh lights and advertisements for clear skin and uncluttered apartments and that one William Carlos Williams poem about plums and iceboxes and forgiveness and the parts of us that will never change.
  • And still, there was something about trains.

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    A whip-smart beach read: think island setting, a pitch-perfect romance, and juicy family secrets you can’t wait to uncover.


    Watching a dysfunctional wealthy family air their dirty laundry—while also attempting to outwit and outprank each other.


    A book that makes you feel all the feels—you’ll swoon, you’ll cheer, you might even shed a tear.

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    A Home for the Holidays
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    The Night We Lost Him
    Madwoman
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    Check & Mate
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    The Leftover Woman
    While You Were Out
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    Family Lore
    Little Monsters
    The Connellys of County Down
    Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
    Paper Names
    Divine Rivals
    Hang the Moon
    The Last Russian Doll
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    White Horse
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    The Fortunes of Jaded Women
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