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Stephanie Gertler has a real gift as a story teller. Normally, this wasn’t the type of book that I’d enjoy at all, but she worded the story in such a way that I couldn’t put it down.

Grace Hammond Barnett had become accustomed her parents’ aloofness. But she had been having dreams since she was a child about drowning, with no known reason. She couldn’t swim and couldn’t remember ever being close enough to the water to hurt herself.

But when her parents commit dual suicide, Grace and her sister, Melanie, find more than what was on the surface.

Their parents had divided everything up equally, but something was out of place. Grace had been left a house. A house that neither one of them knew their parents had. The housekeeper, Jemma, hadn’t known anything about it, either.

After a long drawn out process, Grace’s husband and daughter go to Colorado for a vacation and Grace heads to the house, determined to find out why her parents hadn’t said a word about it. What she finds is a past full of lies and deceit, but she also finds more about herself than she had thought possible. Grace admits to herself that she had long since fallen out of love with her husband, a thought confirmed when one of the locals, Lucas Keegan, charms her into falling in love with him.

I won’t say anymore because it’ll give the book away.

But the way Gertler described the small town that Grace travels to, the way Luke charmed her, the whole way the book was composed was so real, I felt as if I was leaving friends behind when I forced myself to put the book down. The style is something that I’m not used to, but I found I really enjoyed it.

I do recommend this book, its a great, fast paced read for anyone looking for a summer book.