title: Moon Shell Beach: A Novel
author:  Nancy Thayer 
description: Childhood friends Clare Hart and Lexi Laney work toward reconciliation in this bland novel by <i>The Hot Flash Club</i> author. Lexi wants to leave stifling Nantucket, so when wealthy Ed Hardin proposes marriage, Lexi seizes the chance to live a life of off-island luxury. But after 10 years in a lonely and adulterous marriage, Lexi divorces Ed and lands back on the island seeking to repair the relationships she left behind. As Lexi and Clare take steps toward salvaging their friendship, their relationships with menparticularly Lexi's feelings for Clare's fianctest their loyalty. Unfortunately, Thayer's characters are as thin as a worn beach towel, and the phoned-in prose does little to make up for the contrived plot twists that dominate the final act. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: BUCK MOON PARTY ON THE BEACH
  
  ALICE MAY BALL
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Alice May Ball
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  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Epilogue
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  CHAPTER ONE
  WALKING OVER SAND IS HARDER WORK THAN I REMEMBER.
  Soft, hot white sand gets between my toes in the slipping flip-flops. A salty
  breeze flicks my hair in my eyes and across my face. I’m making for the
  shade of a bar under a palapa, with a sign that says, ‘Surf Sup.’
  No way is the beach my natural habitat.
  How did I let Kayleigh talk me into coming here?
  My plan for the enforced week-long hole in my work life was a quiet little
  cabin on 