The Beach Club

Synopsis (from Amazon): In this 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 Cluband all it stands for. 

An engrossing, sexy novel that will sweep you away to the beach any time of the year.

One (or more) Sentence Summary: The Beach Club was a good book to read as winter is approaching.  Even though it is a beach read, I think it is perfect to read anytime of year.  I could very easily picture the club and the cast of characters.  There were a lot of characters in The Beach Club but it did not take away from the story as they were all woven together.  Each one had something going on that pretty much got resolved by the end of the book.  The Beach Club was an enjoyable read.

Would I Read Other Books by the Author:  Yes.  I have read several of Elin Hildebrand's books and have enjoyed them all.  I have several on my Audible account just waiting to be listened too! I am so jealous of where she lives - Nantucket!  It is on my places to visit list.

Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her five previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.

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