(AB) THE KINDRED LETTERS

The Beach Boys of Sunset Beach—ten men who graduated from Stanford together go on to become successful in their vastly different fields while remaining good friends as they take on life's challenges. Five years earlier, they pooled their money and bought a beachfront lot on Sunset Beach and built a magnificent beach house. Once a year in July, they come to the beach house for a two-week reunion with their former dorm mates, who now live all over the world. This particular summer, there is an undercurrent of restlessness though. Are they ready to find that special someone who will share a future they can build on, and a love that consumes them? During two magical weeks at the beach house, Cupid steps in to bring each man his soul mate, and in ways both comical and anguished leads them all on the path to true and lasting happiness. One of the main stories in this book is based on a K.S. journal entry. The story touched me so much, I had to write it and give it a happy ending.

Cassie Andrews has come to Brunswick County to build the controversial high-rise bridge to the idyllic barrier island of Sunset Beach. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles onto a murder and meets Michael Troy, the cop who will light a passion in her that she doesn't know she has. As she struggles to prove herself and fit into the community, Michael tries to solve the murder of one of the island's most disdained citizens. Had he hated the idea of the new bridge so much that it had cost him his life? Just who has he upset this time? Michael wanted a southern bride, a gently-bred woman of the south. So why was this little imp, who liked to play in the dirt with her Tonka toys, turning him inside out? This book contains adult content and uses very descriptive language for said adult content. Please do not purchase if you, or the person you intend to gift this to may be offended by such content.

A newlywed couple’s dream to own a home on the island of Sunset Beach, North Carolina doesn’t pan out as planned….after seven years widow Emily heads to the coast to keep her end of a promise she once made. The community debate over the building of a new bridge is a metaphor for events and decisions happening in Emily’s own life.  Local author Marybeth Whalen takes you along for this touching story in her fourth book set in Sunset Beach, The Bridge Tender.