The book equivalent of a beach getaway.- Pop Sugar. A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, Virginia Hume's Haven Point is perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake. 1944- Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort-and to see the world beyond her family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970- As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don't approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests-and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point. 2008- Annie's daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother's ashes.