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Nantucket
Nantucket
Author: Nan Rossiter
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bestselling author Nan Rossiter comes a tender, moving story of rekindled passion, set amidst the timeless beauty of Nantucket.

Over twenty-five years ago, Liam Tate and Acadia McCormick Knox fell in love. It was summer on Nantucket, and eighteen-year-old Liam knew that wealthy, college-bound Cadie was way out of league for a local boy who restored boats for a living. Yet the two became inseparable, seizing every chance to slip away in Liam's runabout to secluded spots, far from the world that was trying to keep them apart. 

After Cadie returned home to New York and discovered she was pregnant, her parents crushed any hope of communicating with the boy she'd left behind. Unanswered letters and calls couldn't change Liam's heart, but over the years he's settled into a simple, solitary life in his rambling beachfront house. Now he's learned that Cadie is returning to Nantucket for the opening of her son's art show. Over a weekend of revelations and poignant memories, Cadie and Liam have an opportunity to confront the difference time can make, the truths that never alter, and the bittersweet second chances that arrive just in time to steer a heart back home...
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ISBN-13: 9781617736506
ISBN-10: 1617736503
Publication Date: 8/25/2015
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Kensington
Book Type: Paperback
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debbiemd avatar reviewed Nantucket on
Good book. Liam and Cadie meet when they are 17 and her wealthy family is vacationing at Nantucket in the summer. Liam is a local boy who works as a boatbuilder and has no plans for college. Cadie is pregnant at the end of summer but Liam never knows. Twenty-five years later she returns to the island for her son's art show opening and sees Liam again. ..... Now comes the part that seemed a stretch to me: (1) She tells Liam he is a father to a 25 year old and Liam is not even one bit mad that he is just finding this out for the first time but instead happily becomes a father; and (2) Liam and Cadie are still the loves of each others lives after a two week relationship when they were 17 and 25 years apart. Neither has had a real relationship ever since then. Even though these two facts seemed incredulous to me the book was still a good story and still well-written. There was more than just the girl and boy see each other and fall in love because Cadie has terminal cancer and is dying. So there were elements of real sadness to this story.


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