"RADIANT!" "ONE OF THE HOTTEST READS OF SUMMER 2024" "A MUST-READ FOR THE BEACH!" A troubled teenager from a broken home. Summer in an idyllic beach town. A chance for a mother’s redemption. A tall, attractive young man. Deep-seated pain and suffering that threatens to destroy the happiness that is just within reach...! When Elise was a child, her mother Helen left her father for another man. Now, after being away from her daughter for years, Helen has invited Elise to visit her and her new family for the summer on the Jersey shore in a quaint, little town called Avon by the Sea. Helen hopes to make up for lost time but Elise’s anger, her resentment over her parents’ divorce, and her misconceptions about her relationship with her mother threaten to tear them apart, not to mention Helen’s new family and the boyfriend she both clings to and pushes away.