Every summer for generations, three families intertwined by history, marriage, and career have spent the season at their beach cottages on an island in Puget Sound.
Today, Martha Pete Petersen, married to Tyler Strong, is the lynchpin of the summer people.
In childhood, she was the tomboy every girl wanted to emulate and is now the mother everyone admires.
Colin Ryan, family friend and the island's veterinarian, first met Pete years earlier in London, when she visited his .
Northstar Editions Seasons' end, paperback/will north
