The Sandcastle Hurricane

by Carolyn Brown

Overview

Cousins Tabby and Ellie Mae are due for a change. Running their aunt's beachfront bed-and-breakfast in Sandcastle, Texas, is just the thing to shake things up . . . though their lives spin out of control in more ways than one when a hurricane barrels into the coastline. It's a miracle it didn't carry them off to Kansas. Not so lucky are the assisted-living center and a small eclectic group of local folks who take shelter with the cousins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781638085713
Publisher:	Center Point
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and RITA finalist with more than 125 published books. She has written women’s fiction, historical and contemporary romance, and cowboys-and-country-music novels. She and her husband live in the small town of Davis, Oklahoma, where everyone knows everyone else, knows what they are doing and when, and reads the local newspaper on Wednesday to see who got caught. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren and great-grandchildren to keep them young. For more information, visit www.carolynbrownbooks.com.

Editorial Reviews

This contemporary romance with a dash of humor is a light read that still doesn’t shy away from heavier topics, such as grief and racism. Both longtime fans of [Carolyn] Brown, as well as new readers, will enjoy her latest.” —Library Journal

From the Publisher

09/01/2022

Ellie Mae and Tabby are cousins who have inherited an old beachfront Victorian bed-and-breakfast in Texas, known as the Sandcastle. Both women come to the B&B grieving and hoping for a fresh start. That plan is up-ended when an approaching hurricane turns the Sandcastle into an evacuation site for, among others, four assisted-living residents, the handymen Alex and Ricky, other assorted locals, and a bevy of animals. The assisted-living residents (Cleo and Maude, who do nothing but bicker, and lifetime friends and war veterans Homer and Frank) add dimension, but it's the handymen who spark the romance. The unfolding events weren't what Ellie and Tabby imagined when they agreed to take over the B&B, but the situation turns out to offer them a chance at healing and a better future. This contemporary romance with a dash of humor is a light read that still doesn't shy away from heavier topics, such as grief and racism. VERDICT Both longtime fans of Brown (Riverbend Reunion), as well as new readers, will enjoy her latest.—Judy Garner

Library Journal