Waiting for Sunset
(SUMMER IS TOMORROW, #1)
by Starr Ayers
When Olivia Houston’s need to let go collides with her reason to move on, she finds herself thrust into a tomorrow she didn’t see coming.
Ever since her husband’s death, anxiety has pitched its tent in the mind of thirty-two-year-old interior designer Olivia Houston. Weary of the tyranny of the urgent, she longs for quiet and welcomes the invitation to update her cousin’s 1950s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.
On a jog to the tip of neighboring Bird Island, Olivia discovers the mysterious Kindred Spirit mailbox. Planted in the dunes decades earlier by a young couple, the box contains journals with visitors’ entries-as well as an item that plunges Olivia into a search for the family of WW2 Sergeant Walter Larsen.
While at the Kindred Spirit, Olivia collides with Chase Evans, a deep-sea charter boat captain with a circuit-breaker smile, whom Olivia soon recruits to assist with her search. Their shared pursuit takes them far beyond the sands of Sunset Beach and well outside the borders of their hearts.
What will future visits to the Kindred Spirit mailbox hold for Olivia? Will her Sunset Beach sabbatical bring the healing and peace she seeks or compound her heartbreak and loss?
Lavender Tide
(SUMMER IS TOMORROW, #2)
by Starr Ayers
Brooklyn tries to ignore the pull of the Kindred Spirit mailbox, but can’t dismiss the desire to know more about its visitor.
When Brooklyn Marshall returns to her renovated oceanfront cottage at Sunset Beach, North Carolina, her peace is upended by a menacing nor’easter and the intrusion of her painful past. After she bikes to the Kindred Spirit mailbox and fails to return, Logan Corbett, a well-respected real estate agent, is questioned about her disappearance.
Sixty years earlier, polio victim Trish Malone’s fifteenth birthday swiftly turns from celebration to mourning. While paying her respects at Southport’s historic cemetery, she encounters schoolmate Billy Ray Jessup, and her visit takes a troubling turn. He not only scoffs at her belief in an afterlife but mocks a God who would make her “have that crippled leg.” Can a relationship birthed in pain grow into a friendship that endures the hardship and suffering of the Vietnam War and its heartbreaking aftermath?
Two women from different generations, each burdened by griefs and insecurities, experience the guiding hand of God and the wonder of the Kindred Spirit mailbox that bridges the gap between them.
