The Sea Glass

Nicholas Sparks meets Fifty Shades of Grey – The must-have book for 2018!! Nothing in Jake Delaney’s life could prepare him for the thunderbolt of instant attraction on that first encounter, in an idyllic South Florida town in 1984. Jake was 24 years old, a young and ambitious New Yorker, but still only a kid himself. What did he know about love at first sight? But when he first glimpsed the carefree and spirited Summer Cantrell on that fateful night, he knew he’d fallen in love. But there was a problem, a huge problem; Summer was just sixteen years old. As his city life of casual sexual encounters leaves him emotionally unfulfilled, Jake’s moral compass flickers when he discovers his attraction for Summer is mutually reciprocated in this sea of forbidden love. In a story that begins during an era devoid of today’s communication technology and against a backdrop of 1980s music, a cast of quirky characters illuminates the way for Jake and Summer as desperate choices cruelly tear the couple apart. Twenty-five years later, Jake and Summer struggle to reconcile family lives as they tentatively rediscover and transcend the arousal of first love, passionately reigniting a distant online connection aided by new technology and social media. The Sea Glass is an extraordinary love story that spans four decades and four states, beginning in New York before moving to Florida, Tennessee and California. It has a wealth of colorful personalities and is witty and humorous, tragic and heartbreaking. It builds gently to a frenetic, heart-stopping and dramatic end that will leave you breathless and wanting more.