Synopses & Reviews
The Beach Club
Elin Hilderbrand
Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors...
Mack Petersen escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can't stay hidden...
Love O'Donnel, a glamourous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her daring plan...to find a man to make her pregnant...
Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most...
Cecily Elliot, the owner's daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents' hearts.
Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about the desperate desire...and about the storm coming that will change everything at...The Beach Club.
Review
"A steamy tale."--
The Boston Herald"A strong, emotional pull...readers will remain absorbed until the surprising denouement."--Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
In The Beach Club, the juicy first novel by Elin Hilderbrand, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It's about the love of summer, summer love, and the special feelings we all have for that special summer place--in this case, a hotel and an island.
Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at The Beach Club for 12 summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliot, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend Maribel is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African-American bellman, who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job 12 years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene. Mack knows something's got to give.
Love O'Donnell, the new front desk person straight from the slopes of Aspen, is desperately searching for a stranger to father her child. The bellman, Jem Crandall, who posed as Mr. November in his college calendar, is on his way to LA to break into agenting, until he falls in love with Maribel. Emotions are at a peak when a hurricane threatens to wash away The Beach Club and all it stands for.
An engrossing, sexy novel that will sweep you away to the beach any time of the year.
About the Author
Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a teaching-writing fellow. Her short fiction appeared in
Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and
The Colorado Review. She lives year-round on Nantucket Island with her husband, Chip Cunningham, who manages the Cliffside Beach Club, and their son. This is her first novel.