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Practically Family
Firecrackers weren’t meant to sit in a box. They were meant to explode.
Brittney doesn’t know if she should be embarrassed or grateful. She has a job that pays bills, a family who loves her, and a best friend who is the best . But after a gut-wrenching betrayal and the loss of her dad in a tragic accident, she definitely feels stuck.
Nothing is wrong, but nothing feels right either.
Only when she finds herself uprooted from her single-wide haven does she start moving again, first into a ridiculous roommate situation, then – bless her heart - toward a brooding musician, who also happens to be her best friend’s estranged brother.
It’s a mess, but Brittney comes from complications made beautiful. Her mama, Jessie, is still navigating her new marriage -- and that of her best friend Maggie, who storms into town like a hurricane, bringing her own romantic chaos with her.
Join the Oakley-Jameson family – and those who are practically family to them, who live, love, and learn the hard way in the beautiful oceanside South Carolina town of Surfside Beach.
Brittney doesn’t know if she should be embarrassed or grateful. She has a job that pays bills, a family who loves her, and a best friend who is the best . But after a gut-wrenching betrayal and the loss of her dad in a tragic accident, she definitely feels stuck.
Nothing is wrong, but nothing feels right either.
Only when she finds herself uprooted from her single-wide haven does she start moving again, first into a ridiculous roommate situation, then – bless her heart - toward a brooding musician, who also happens to be her best friend’s estranged brother.
It’s a mess, but Brittney comes from complications made beautiful. Her mama, Jessie, is still navigating her new marriage -- and that of her best friend Maggie, who storms into town like a hurricane, bringing her own romantic chaos with her.
Join the Oakley-Jameson family – and those who are practically family to them, who live, love, and learn the hard way in the beautiful oceanside South Carolina town of Surfside Beach.
349 pages, Paperback
Published September 26, 2023
About the author
Kelly Capriotti Burton
14 books21 followersKelly Capriotti Burton is the author of the Surfside Beach Series and the inspirational non-fiction collection, Swerve.
A native of South Chicago Heights, Illinois, Kelly also works as a professional running enthusiast (mananging a family-owned running store),
a licensed minister, and a marathoner, who now resides in Surfside Beach, South Carolina and can't imagine it any other way.
Though a new novelist, Kelly has a longstanding professional writing career that includes work in magazines and marketing, most notably for TRU Teen Magazine, Southern Gospel Radio, and SGN Scoops. Upon moving to coastal Carolina and experiencing several twists and turns, she decided it was time to put a creative spin on her "big, crazy, gathered family" and her belief in happily ever afters for complicated relationships.
Kelly does life with her husband Rod, their five kids, granddaughter, parents, two dogs, a Harley, a rock band, and that ever-expanding gathered family. She enjoys warm nights hearing the band play, riding on the back of her husband's motorcycle, combing the beach, long runs with friends followed by a great breakfast, adventures with her kids, and laughing.
Her debut novel, The Tentative Knock, is an exploration of moving forward while carrying grief and is a book club favorite, along with a rising favorite on the Amazon charts. Kelly's inspiration collection of essays, Swerve: When Life Throws
Curves, But God Said Live, is an Amazon #1 New Release.
A native of South Chicago Heights, Illinois, Kelly also works as a professional running enthusiast (mananging a family-owned running store),
a licensed minister, and a marathoner, who now resides in Surfside Beach, South Carolina and can't imagine it any other way.
Though a new novelist, Kelly has a longstanding professional writing career that includes work in magazines and marketing, most notably for TRU Teen Magazine, Southern Gospel Radio, and SGN Scoops. Upon moving to coastal Carolina and experiencing several twists and turns, she decided it was time to put a creative spin on her "big, crazy, gathered family" and her belief in happily ever afters for complicated relationships.
Kelly does life with her husband Rod, their five kids, granddaughter, parents, two dogs, a Harley, a rock band, and that ever-expanding gathered family. She enjoys warm nights hearing the band play, riding on the back of her husband's motorcycle, combing the beach, long runs with friends followed by a great breakfast, adventures with her kids, and laughing.
Her debut novel, The Tentative Knock, is an exploration of moving forward while carrying grief and is a book club favorite, along with a rising favorite on the Amazon charts. Kelly's inspiration collection of essays, Swerve: When Life Throws
Curves, But God Said Live, is an Amazon #1 New Release.
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