Too Close to the Sun — Carole McElhaney

It is the summer of 1994. The residents of the tightly knit fishing village on the south Texas coast are geared for the throngs of summer tourists. But they are not prepared for the upheaval destined to befall the village. Long buried truths explode into reality. Murder comes to the island. A psycho roams the streets. And their innocence is forever lost. The Morgan-McGuires bear the brunt of the chaotic summer and suffer the greatest of the tragedies and changes that befall the island during this summer from hell. Old wounds fester when the family comes together; Sarah Elizabeth Campion, steady as a rock until she is betrayed; Chloe Dawson, travel writer turned family lush; Sunny Day Child, film star who has much for which to atone; Star Child, who discovers she is dating a madman; Pace McDaniel, who daily curses her gift of clairvoyance for she sees death; Sam Morgan-McGuire and his wife, Shaela, who are facing a marital rite of passage; Suzanne Love, newcomer to the island who finds herself unwittingly drawn into the horror. And Molly Morgan-McGuire, the family matriarch, who shocks her family by revealing a past she held hidden deep inside for nigh unto eighty years. A secret that threatens to tear apart her already fractured family. Death, change, lost love and love found work their forces upon the sun-drenched island and while the entire village is on edge, it is the Morgan-McGuire family who must come together in a final stand against the terror plaguing their beloved island community. Death, change, lost love and love found work their forces upon the sun-drenched island and while the entire village is on edge, it is the Morgan-McGuire family who must come together in a final stand against the terror plaguing their beloved island community.