The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2)

by Tess Gerritsen

What was it about growing older that turned you into a bird-watcher and made you invest in expensive optical equipment?

Why does bird watching become so appealing as we get older? Lol

That’s what her marriage had taught her: the more fiercely you loved someone, the deeper the pain when you lost them.

“People can justify almost anything, Maggie. That’s why history keeps repeating itself.”

He’d spent so much of his life caring for Abigail’s needs, and before that for their mother’s as well, that he scarcely knew how to attend to his own. Now everything in his life was about to change.

For so long, he’d clung to his bitterness, had used it as a protective shield against the world. To let go of that bitterness now made him feel vulnerable. Adrift.

“Never overlook the human heart as a source of mischief.”