"Excellent stoytelling"
Following the funeral of their oppressive father, siblings
Laura and Snack Shore return home to Cape Cod for the first
time in years unlike their sister Corinne who still lives
at home. Corinne persuades her two reluctant siblings to
stay for one month to try to turn around Shore Gardens, the
family nursery that has been a failure for years because
she feels the business can be saved if family was around to
do so. Laura's school classmate Kendall Barclay runs the bank.
When he and Laura were children, he took a pounding to
rescue her from an assault. He always liked Laura and she
him, but nothing major came of it except some heartache.
However, when a corpse is found on the property, police
investigate. But so do the three Shores. Only Ken keeps
Laura safe, as he wants her more than ever and vows no one
will harm her, but she still avoids committing beyond a
tenuous friendship. Fans will enjoy spending A MONTH ON THE SHORE as this
summer romance contains several enjoyable characters. The
Shore siblings are distinct individuals which makes it easy
to follow them while Ken is a wannabe knight in shining
armor when it comes to Laura. The murder mystery takes a
back seat to the romance except when Laura (and in some
ways more so Corinne) is a damsel in distress. Antoinette
Stockenberg provides a strong tale of a family in trouble. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 30, 2003
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