This is definitely NOT one of Frank's best books. I have all her previous novels and have to say I was totally disappointed with this. It is basically about recent college grad, Beth Hayes who gives up grad school for a year to housesit the family home on Sullivan's Island while her mom has an opportunity of a lifetime to spend a year in Paris teaching. I must say, for a young woman, Beth is very immature. She does not want to go to the island and makes that well known, but after settling in a bit she falls foolishly head-over-heels in love with an older man and pursues him relentlessly, only to end up getting badly hurt and taken by his ways.

There is so much head hopping in this book, I was getting a headache reading it and I only hope this does not prove to be an indication of Frank's future books. Please, Dorothea, get your act together and go back to writing like your first books.