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Terri Rayburn doesn't deserve her reputation, but growing up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. She keeps to herself as she knows the only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it. When she returns home from a trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house, she is suspicious. Who is trying to fix her up? She has to admit that Nate Taggert is her type, but Nate is already engaged to the daughter...
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The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Homea closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coastand its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade. But behind...
3) Happy sands
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Brave and brilliant volume no. 21
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Ginny, a jaded massage therapist with an eye for body details, sets off with her husband Martin and their two kids Alistair and Ruby for their annual summer vacation at Happy Sands Resort. The cast of returning renters at the resort includes two power-boating families, a cranky mom with her Goth daughter, an elderly couple, a devilish set of twins, and, oh, new this year at the resort - Dwayne the Uberman. Through her inner commentary we learn about...
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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The New York Times–bestselling cozy mystery series continues at a Virginia book-themed getaway where there are multiple murders to solve.
With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort's latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
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"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...
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Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter's Pass. Cutter's Pass is best known for its outdoor offerings, rafting and hiking, with access to the Appalachian Trail by way of a gorgeous waterfall, and its mysterious history. A string of unsolved disappearances that has haunted the town is once again thrust into the spotlight when journalist...
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Two brief episodes, separated by a decade and the First World War, provide a glimpse into the personalities and relationships that make up the Ramsay family. In both instances, as the family visits their summer home in the Isle of Skye, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay in turn contemplate their life choices and their marriage.
Thoughtful and introspective, To the Lighthouse is an impressive example of both stream of consciousness narrative and early modernist...
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In desperate need of a lifeline while running her mother's lakeside resort, thirty-two-year-old Fern Brookbanks finds it in the form of Will Baxter, who rescued her nine years ago, and, believing he is hiding something, but knowing he's the only one who understands what she's going through, wonders if she can do the same for him.
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In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront "paradise" In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless...
14) The getaway
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Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
17) Cooper's Charm
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Sisters Phoenix and Ridley Rose, both trying to move on from bad experiences, unexpectedly find an opportunity to start over and a brighter future when they take temporary summer jobs at the lakeside resort of Cooper's Charm.
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Cape Charade volume 1
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Kellen Adams can't remember the last year of her life. Her only clue is the gunshot scar on her forehead. She takes a job at a vacation resort where she discovers a dead woman. When another murder occurs Kellen begins to wonder if her amnesia could be keeping her from recognizing the killer.
19) Triple cross
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A New Year's Eve gathering of the world's wealthiest people is infiltrated by a heavily armed paramilitary force that takes everybody hostage.
20) The runaway
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When her sister mysteriously disappears from celebrity spa Halcyon House, which was once an asylum for the insane, Rosemary Tulle arrives in Maine to find the truth and is forced to get help from the one man she hoped never to see again.
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