NEW RELEASE
The Summer of Secrets - Alison Lucy (2012)
In 1989, Danny takes his new wife on honeymoon to Mexico. Unable to change his gambling ways he wins a house on a deserted island, only for his wife to desert him. He consoles his heartbreak with Mexican Catalina and rich girl Lucy. Nine months later, three babies are born. The story fast forwards 21 years, when all three daughters are searching for something. Megan is escaping the UK; Esme who married at 15 is wondering if there is more to life; and rich girl Claudia has to reconnect with her mother to find her long-lost father. With the action centring around Mexico, this book makes you want to go there on holiday. The story hooks you in as you want to find out if the three girls will meet up and you want to know what happened to their delinquent dad. A perfect summer read, I struggled to put it down. (AB)
The Summer of Secrets, by Alison Lucy (aka Alison Bond), is about three women who hope to unlock the missing clues that will help them find out who they really are. The summary says: "1989: Newlyweds Danny and Harriet arrive at their honeymoon paradise in the Caribbean. Days later Harriet returns home. Danny is left distraught but finds comfort in the arms of two women. Nine months later, three baby girls are born... 2010: Megan leaves her childhood sweetheart behind in the UK to go in search of her long-lost father. Miles from home and temptation is at every corner - not least in the arms of the gorgeous Ray. Esme, a Mexican beauty, married Miguel at 15. In unlocking the secrets of her past, can she shed the shackles of her enforced marriage? Claudia has led a life of privilege but she's never really known what it feels like to be loved. Could David be the answer? Or will he disappoint her, just like her mother always did? Three women set off on an adventure to uncover the secrets surrounding their missing father. It may be the only way to lay their demons to rest but seeking out the truth could tear their lives apart." The Summer of Secrets is out in May.
The Summer of Secrets, by Alison Lucy, is a love story about three sisters who do not know about each other until they each set out to search for their father in the last place he was seen, a mysterious island off the Caribbean coast of Mexico. The ebook The Summer of Secrets: The Early Years has three short stories which explains how Danny Featherbow came to father these three children he never met, by women that he never saw again. Lucy says: "I thought I would write about the three mothers who feature in The Summer of Secrets, because once upon a time they too were young women with huge dreams of romance. Romance that they found in Danny's arms. It was only time that changed them..."