By Wendy Wax

In this new novel from the writer of Ten seashore Road and Ocean Beach, 3 not going associates who have been thrown jointly via catastrophe get a do-over on existence, love, and happiness . . .

Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first bought to understand one another—perhaps all too well—while desperately restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. Now they're placing that have to expert use. yet their newest venture has awarded a few demanding situations they couldn't have dreamed up of their wildest fantasies—although the home does belong to a guy who really was once Maddie's wildest myth as soon as . . .

Rock-and-roll legend "William the Wild" Hightower could be earlier his best, estranged from his kin, and creatively blocked, yet he's nonetheless worshiped through fans—which is why he guards his privateness on his personal island within the Florida Keys. He's now not overjoyed approximately letting this team flip his piece of paradise right into a bed-and-breakfast for a truth exhibit . . . although he's intrigued via Maddie. demanding as that's for her to think as a newly unmarried lady who can slightly deal with a puppy paddle within the courting pool.

yet even if it's an unforeseen flirtation with a bona fide rock celebrity, a strained mother-daughter courting, or a unexpected tragedy, those girls are in it jointly. the single factor that will force them aside is being trapped on a houseboat with one toilet . . .

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I collected from my friend the following details. " To begin," says he, " with the end—of all things. Death hath swept away LEONTES, BAROCCIO,SEMPRONIUS, ARCHIMEDES, MELIADUS, and PALERMO.! They were six brave bookwarriors in their day ; men who, at sundry sales which need not now be named, used to Flame in the front, or thunder in the rear! " Perceiving * " Insatiate Archer ! "—YOUNG. , and John North, Esq. Their libraries were all sold by auction; the first and the last being by much the most costly in the produce.

But oh, that splendid MS. ioiaiv lUaOai"*—exclaimed I, as, on turning my eyes in an opposite direction, I essayed to see the numerous folios and quartos—some of which were impervious to the glorious sun-beam. Having lost my list of memoranda, taken on the spot, I grieve to say that my account of this classical retreat must be thus superficial. But it is only the performance of an act of common justice to add, that the Falernian and Mark Brenner of Priscian crowned the evening's hospitality of his abode.

It was all in vain. There was no resisting the tide of fashion, or the force of custom:—call it as you might. Clear it was to him, that the dwarf had vanquished the giant—and that Laputa was lording it over Brobdignag. * On quit* Mr. Murray, like the best of us, may have his capriccios ; but I KNOW him to possess as warm a heart, and as munifi- 32 ting his premises, I observed palpable proofs of the absence of those "goodly quartos," which, in former times, the public used to anticipate with such eager curiosity—and which, as containing a BODY OF TRAVELS, were the ornament—and will long continue to be the ornament—of every well-furnished Library.

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