The Boathouse — Caroline Upcher

ONE SUMMER CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER

Warm sun. Backyard parties. The sounds of murmuring voices under twilight skies. There's nothing quite like summer.
It is summer when the irrepressible Murphy clan moves into the extravagant house at No. 57 Chaveny Road in London's fashionable suburbs. Summer, when Molly Page gets a first glimpse of the boys next door: charming, movie-star handsome Billy; sensitive, poetic Pete; and ambitious, clever Warren. On that day, her life becomes forever entwined with the Murphy's and with the three boys who will shape her future. One will adore her. One will marry her. One will break her heart and lead her all the way to New York … and a secret that changes her life forever.

Confused but hopeful, Molly has come to spend the last days of August with her American godmother, Mitzi Alexander, at the Boathouse, the secluded Hamptons retreat where Molly's mother once spent her own youthful summers â€" and where she died tragically, leaving behind a legacy of longing and mystery that still haunts her only daughter. With her exotic looks and bold, take-no-prisoners attitude, Mitzi is unlike anyone Molly's ever known, a woman determined to make her goddaughter see beyond her romantic illusions, something Molly's mother was never able to do. Now, in the late-summer shadow of the Boathouse, Molly will unlock a door into the past that will lead her to her family's hidden wounds â€" lies and betrayals that run as deep as the ocean itself â€" and to the risk she'll have to take if true happiness is to be hers to have and to hold…