Come Summer — Sandra Steffen

IN SEARCH OF HER SISTER'S PAST, SHE'LL MEET HER OWN FUTURE HEAD-ON.

When artist Liza Cassidy heads for tiny Alcott, New Hampshire, she's traveling back in time--to the last year of her twin sister Laurel's life. Five years have passed since Laurel died, and Liza's grief is finally a dull ache instead of a fresh wound. But an unopened letter has revealed a secret about Laurel's last months that Liza never imagined: a child.

Liza needs to meet the little boy who is the only remaining link to Laurel, but what she finds in charming, seaside Alcott is far more complicated than a child with the Cassidys' red hair. Such as young Tommy's enigmatic father, Sheriff Jack McCall, and an extended family of townspeople all touched by Laurel's presence in their lives--and shattered by her disappearance.

For cautious, careful Liza, who was always the flip side of Laurel's free-spirited independence, connecting to Jack and Tommy is both a temptation and a risk. But as she settles into the community her twin called home, she suspects that finishing what Laurel began might be the last gift her sister had given her...