A hundred summers - beatriz williams

Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview.

But an unwelcome specter from Lilys past also appears: her former best friend and her former fianc, now recently married.

As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of Her Last Flight and The Golden Hour .

Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations.

Its an escape not only from New Yorks social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her.

Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer.

But this summer is different.

Budgie and Nick Greenwald--Lilys former best friend and former fianc --have arrived, too, and Seaviews elite are abuzz.

Under Budgies glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing.

As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever.

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