Summer Rental is definitely a "chick" or "beach" novel. The story centers on three friends that meet for a month at Nags Head, South Carolina. Each lady has her own problems and agenda, but life does not always go as planned. A fourth lady joins this month of leisure. Andrews develops each woman, but the story seems silly at times. Real bad fortune never seems to enter the equation. Julia is an aging model trying to decide if she should marry longtime boyfriend Booker and change her career. Dorie is a poorly paid teacher, newly pregnant, and has just learned that her husband is gay. Ellis has lost her dream job to downsizing and has not been involved with a man into over 10 years. And then, Madison enters the picture as a wife running away from an abusive and criminal husband. I felt the ending a little trite and many issues not resolved.