Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, The View cohost, and National Bestselling author Sunny Hostin dazzles with this brilliant novel about a life-changing Summer along the beaches of Martha\'s Vineyard.
Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country.
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, she will tell these surrogate daughters she fiercely.
What she has to give them is far more than property.
Ama has a few secrets of her own.
By the end of summer, old ties will fray, new bonds will be created, and these three found sisters will discover they aren\'t the only ones with something to hide.
Each is grappling with a secret she fears will hurt her and her chances.
Each of the women wants the house desperately.
And when fall comes, she is going to give the house to one of them.
She has invited Perry, Olivia, and Billy to spend one last golden Summer together with her the way they did when they were kids.
An era is ending: Ama, now nearing seventy-one, is moving to the south of France to reunite with her college sweetheart.
This Summer on the Bluffs, however, will be different.
As adults, the cottage is a place this trio of successful yet very different women go to escape, to slow down from their hectic lives, share private time with Ama, and enjoy the gorgeous weather, cool water, and stunning views Oak Bluffs offers.
Growing up, these three goddaughters from different backgrounds came together each Summer at Chateau Laveau.
But her favorite guests have always been her three goddaughters: Esperanza Perry Soto, a beautiful, talented Afro-Latina lawyer with Ama\'s strong, yet guarded personality
Olivia Jones, a gifted Wall Street analyst with Ama\'s brilliant, logical mind; and Billie Hayden, a gifted marine biologist and rule-breaker with Ama\'s courageous free spirit.
For decades, Ama played host to American presidents, Wall Street titans, and cultural icons.
Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau.
Black people have lived in this pretty slip of the Vineyard since the 1600s and began buying property in the 1800s, making this posh town the embodiment of old money.
Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the cr me de la cr me of black society--where Michelle and Barack Obama vacation and Meghan Markle has shopped for a house for her mom.
Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, The View cohost, and National Bestselling author Sunny Hostin dazzles with this brilliant novel about a life-changing Summer along the beaches of Martha\'s Vineyard.
Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country
