Set on a beautiful island from the coast of Maine, this deeply moving and powerful book by NY Times bestselling author and ‘first-rate storyteller’ (The Boston Globe) is about three individuals who survive a boating incident, exploring not only how each individual handles his or her own twist of destiny, but also the effect each survivor is wearing the other.

WHAT EMPLOYS THE MOMENT THAT FOREVER CHANGES YOUR LIFE?

This is the question that haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Colella, the about Summer season I Dared only survivors of a terrible boating accident off the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of nine other folks.

Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, has generally taken the path of least level of resistance. Pigeonholed by her controlling family and more and more distant husband as ‘loyal’ and ‘obedient,’ she realizes in the aftermath of her clean with death that there surely is even more to her — also to the world around her — than she ever truly imagined.

Feeling strangely linked to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, also to Kim, a twenty-one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery, Julia starts to explore the initial possibilities provided by the calm isle of Big Sawyer, Maine. Abruptly, factors that once appeared critical eliminate significance, and stuff that seemed inconsequential undertake a whole new importance. With each transferring moment, each brand-new discovery, Julia expands more sure that after coming face-to-face with death, she must have more from lifestyle.

Resolving to make things right for the future and drawing on an inner strength she never knew she possessed, Julia passionately awakens to a new world, fearlessly embracing uncertainties in a way she couldn’t have imagined only a few weeks ago.

Tripped the coastline of Maine, where lobstermen keep using the tides every morning to haul and reset their traps, and neighbours gather each night to feast on the catch of your day, Barbara Delinsky’s THE SUMMERTIME I Dared is a deeply moving tale of the risky but rewarding seek out self, a story of survival, and of the irrepressible capability of the individual spirit to rebound from catastrophe and to create lifestyle anew.