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Last Kiss

A Novel

#6 in series

by Luanne Rice
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New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago.
A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead—murdered—less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love?
Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth—Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson.
Now Gavin’s boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son….
Unfolding among the Hubbard’s Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Hubbard's Point

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 15, 2008

  • Formats

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780553905397

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780553905397
      • File size: 879 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 19, 2008
      Rice makes a solid return visit to the Hubbard's Point, Conn., setting of Beach Girls
      (2004). As the book opens, a year soaked in Wild Turkey has passed since singer/songwriter Sheridan Rosslare lost her son, Charlie, in a random New York mugging. While Sheridan drowns her sorrows, Charlie's girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, is more assiduous; she hires private investigator Gavin Dawson to prove there was nothing random about Charlie's death. For his part, Hubbard's Point native Gavin, a New York transplant, had pretty much written off Hubbard's Point after Sheridan, once the love of his life, dumped him for his wild and reckless ways years before. Now, older and wiser, he's still in love with Sheridan and wants to start over, but Sheridan's grief soon proves a formidable obstacle. An element of supernatural whimsy, a dark secret involving a trust fund and a disturbing question related to Charlie's estranged father, Randy, add complexity, while cameos from other Beach Girls
      characters contribute an engaging, homey touch.

    • Booklist

      June 1, 2008
      Life will never be thesame forcountry singer Sheridanand teenage Nell. Sheridans much-beloved son, Charlie, who was Nells soul mate, was murdered in New York City after he left Hubbards Point, Connecticut, to attend NYU.Nell wants to know why, so she hires Gavin Dawson to find out. Gavin spent the best time of his life in Hubbards Point, growing up and then falling in love with Sheridan until his anger and violent outbursts drove her away. Nowa private investigator, he is determined to helpSheridan by finding out what happened to her son. Like Gavin, Charlie grew up without a father. As Gavin works the case, he revisits his past and yearns for a future with Sheridan, while Nell cannot let go of the past and her love for Charlie. When Nell encounters a young man who looks just like Charlie, the truth eventually comes out. Rice fans will rejoice as she revisits her beloved beach community in this engrossing story of love and redemption.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)

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