From Publishers Weekly
The amazingly prolific Rice reintroduces characters from 2009's Geometry of Sisters for this heart-tugger about a reunion of a mother and her two daughters who've been separated for 10 years due to a disturbing secret. Set on the picturesque isle of Capri, Rice's touching tale reflects on how families can survive and thrive despite tragedies. Lyra Nicholson is a lonely heiress living in Italy while her equally lonely daughters, 16-year-old Pell and Lucy, a 14-year-old math whiz, live in Newport, R.Iwith their grandmother. Lucy's already tried to contact (via equations) the ghost of her dead father with Beck, her BFF and the sister of Pell's boyfriend, Travis. Pell travels to Italy, wanting Lyra, who abandoned her and Lucy, to finally take responsibility for them. Max Gardiner, her mother's smitten playwright neighbor, encourages Pell, even as she is distracted by Rafe, Max's 19-year-old recovering addict grandson. Rice gives Pell an old-beyond-her-years stability that Lyra lacks in this beguiling beach read that would suit YA readers as well as their mothers. (Aug.)
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Review
Praise for the novels of Luanne Rice:
βA rare combination of realism and romance.ββ_The New York Times Book Review_ on Summer Light
βFew writers evoke summer's translucent days so effortlessly, or better capture the bittersweet ties of family love.β
β_Publishers Weekly _on Beach Girls
βIrresistibleβ¦vivid storytelling. Readers can almost smell the sea air. Rice has a gift for creating realistic characters, and the pages fly by as those characters explore the bonds of family.ββ_Orlando Sentinel_ on The Secret Hour
βLuanne Rice has enticed millions of readers by enveloping them in stories that are wrapped in the hot, sultry weather of summerβ¦she does it so well.ββ_USA Today_