Author- Jude Deveraux

Title- The Summer House book 1

Publisher- Gallery Books

Now I already love Jude Deveraux and her books. This particular book had me hooked after page 3! This book is one of three and as soon as this one came out, I couldn’t wait for the others to come out.

It’s about three best friends who share a birthday and they are about to turn forty. They began their friendship when they were twenty-one in a local DMV, where they discovered that they had the same birthday. Years later they wanted to celebrate their shared birthday away from their daily lives. So, they decided to meet a summerhouse in Maine, for a weekend getaway.

Upon visiting the little town, they went exploring and began to enjoy their time away. With it their wishes and what ifs came into the conversation, which led them to a certain road to a certain woman named Madame Zoya.

With a small little chat with this woman Madame Zoya, she bestowed upon them the chance to relive any three weeks from their past and give them the chance to turn their “what ifs” into a reality, to change their future.

Now for Leslie, who is an unnoticed suburban housewife and mother, gets to decide if she wants to remain in her current life now or follow the boy who she loved in her college years. Would she choose a life of being unnoticed or unappreciated or would she follow the boy who notices everything about her?

Madison, who wanted to pursue modeling but fell short to help her high school boyfriend, who was badly hurt in an accident. Although later on, the ungrateful guy just left her. Would this second chance give her the courage to say “no” to her boyfriend or would she use the knowledge that she knows to take a different path to a better future?

Then there is Ellie, who had become a well-known, successful, novelist but her husband had other plans with the money she earned. With a quick divorce he had wiped Ellie out of all of her earnings. This act from him gave her little faith in the justice system as well as love. If she could go back, would she prevent it all from happening or would she use the system to keep what she has and possibly earn something more and worthwhile?

With each woman, you sit there, and you have to wonder. Do they stay with their present or do they follow their own dreams. When they choose, it’s for life, so they have to choose wisely otherwise they will be stuck and there won’t be a Madame Zoya to help them out of this a second time.

So, if you like mystery, thriller, suspense with a little romance than this is the book for you. However, there are three books to this series, so make sure you get the first summer house. Stay tuned to hear about the other books to come. Enjoy!!

If you have read it, tell me what you thought of the book and have you read the other ones?