St. Martin's Press Haven point, hardcover/virginia hume

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A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, 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.

Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie's view of Haven Point : despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place--and the people--snobbish and petty.

But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.

Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume 's Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.

About author(s): Virginia Hume is a freelance writer and editor.

Her early career was spent in politics and public affairs.

She lives outside Washington, D.

with her husband, their daughters, and an under-groomed bichon named Chester.