Böcker av Heather Frese

Grieving her father’s death, Charlotte McConnell seeks solace at the Outer Banks inn owned by her best friend's family, but she finds them dealing with their own family drama and soon lands in the center of an unexpected love triangle.Her hotel family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room, but her friend Evie has a looming life change of her own, and soon Charlotte seeks other attractions to navigate her grief. Will she, like in some television movie, find her way back through a romance, or are there larger forces at play on Hatteras Island? Heather Frese, winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize and author of The Baddest Girl on the Planet, sets Charlotte on a beautifully rendered course through human frailty and longing, unrelenting science, and the awesome forces of the Carolina coast.

WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE ¿This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend.¿ ¿Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours¿career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child¿not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life¿s changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local shoreline, she muddles through¿until that moment of loss and longing when muddling will no longer suffice. This is the story of what the baddest girl on the planet must find in herself when a bag of pastries, a new lover, or quick trip to Vegas won¿t fix anything, and when something more than casual haplessness is required. The Baddest Girl on the Planet is inventive, sharp, witty, and poignant. Readers will want to jump in and advise this baddest girl on the planet¿or at least just give her a shake or a hug¿at every fascinating turn.

Until now, Outer Banks native Evie Austin has been the baddest girl on the planet. What comes next?