Lisa Mercado-Fernandez
Writer & Author of The Shoebox
The Books
The Shoebox
Softcover ISBN: 9781458212962
Hardcover ISBN: 9781458212955
E-book ISBN: 9781458213303
It's 1985, and Peter Michaels is bidding on the greatest architectural project of his career, just weeks shy of his wedding to Boston's most ambitious socialite. Ane yet he is still secretly tormented by memories of Maddy Marsden, the young woman he loved passionately twenty years earlier. Maddy and her family mysteriously disappeared years ago. Although he is unable to forget her, Peter has moved on with his life - until the shoebox resurfaces, and he realizes taht his feelings for his current fiancee can't possibly compare to his feelings for the soul mate he loved and lost so long ago.
Under deadline pressure from his career-chaging project and caught up in the whirlwind of his domineering fiancee's wedding plans, Peter is finally able, thorugh the latest 1980s technology, to locate Maddy, now a teacher in Colorado. He flies to Denver, where her is shocked to learn the reason for her long-ago disappearance and soon finds himself forced to make the one choice he never thought he could make.
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In The Eighth Summer, the Mitchell family has shared their lovely Cape Cod style fixer-upper in Nantucket with their best friends. Amy and Tommy and their baby Gracie have hosted 7 years of casual breakfasts, outdoor dinners, and long nights of reminiscing over cold beers, sing a longs and talks on the porch. On this, the eighth year, as the strongest of friends are days away from reuniting, one of their own is tragically killed in a motorcycle accident.
As Tommy and Amy gather their friends and prepare for Mark’s funeral, they each confess secrets, expose lies, and finally face the demons that have been dormant for so long.
Through their heartbreak and pain the secrets that surface as they unite in the place that held so many joyous memories may harm the ties that bind them forever. It is with the deepest of interventions, in-depth soul searching and stripping of each individual’s pride that this group can come together again.