(AB) THE MAILBOX

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.

Macy Dillon is back at Sunset Beach to meet for the first time the boy, now man, who for twenty-five years she exchanged drawings with.  Questions of her childhood, loss, and longing for love are explored local author, Marybeth Whalen's The Guest Book.

Savvy, determined Ivy Marshall discovers that her husband has cheated on her on the very same day her sister’s perfect boyfriend proposes on national television. When Ivy’s mother asks her to return to her family’s beach home to plan her sister’s upcoming wedding, she decides to use the excuse to escape from the pain of her broken heart. Cheated on and broken-hearted Ivy returns to the island of Sunset Beach, North Carolina to help plan her sister’s wedding. There she crosses paths with her former fiancé, and old feelings makes her wonder if maybe they have a future. Technologically gifted, her cheating husband decides the best way to let Ivy know his remorse and love for her is to Tweet to her…well as you can imagine, Ivy has a lot of decisions to make!

Josh Hurley keeps a dark secret. He’s addicted to the pills that killed his father. When Josh and his mom move to Sunset Beach, Josh expects his life will continue its downward spiral. He doesn’t expect to write to his dad in a strange mailbox on a remote shore. He REALLY doesn’t expect that his dad would write him back.

In 1969, during the crux of the Vietnam war, Jack Tagger is on the run. As the war in Southeast Asia rages on, he has made the moral decision to resist the draft. In his effort to avoid the authorities and the war, he seeks refuge on a desolate coastal barrier island where unbeknownst to him, while avoiding one war, he finds himself unwittingly caught in the middle of another deadly land-war between two very powerful men at Sunset Beach, North Carolina. When a native American shaman summons the spirit of an innocent victim of that conflict, Jack is again forced to make a potentially lethal choice between good and evil and he learns that, like Madd Inlet, what runs smooth and meandering on top does not always belie what runs just beneath the surface.