BOOKS

Use these Hometown Collection magnetic bookmarks to keep your place when reading. Simply clip the bookmark on the page where you left off, and return to it when you are ready. Each bookmark features landmarks of our beautiful slice of paradise. Made with a

When Brooklyn Marshall returns to her renovated oceanfront cottage at Sunset Beach, North Carolina, her peace is upended by a menacing nor'easter and the intrusion of her painful past. After she bikes to the Kindred Spirit mailbox and fails to return, Loga

The dazzling lights of the Christmas Flotilla shimmer across Sea Oats Beach, transforming the December night into a twinkling wonderland. But for Breanna Hart, the brilliance dims when she discovers a gunshot fatality on an abandoned boat. The victim, know

Three women walk into a post office. This is no joke--it's the spark that ignites a life-altering crisis. On a quiet spring afternoon, an ordinary small-town post office becomes ground zero for a domestic dispute. A husband draws a weapon and seals the do

Use these Sunset Beach landmark magnetic bookmarks to keep your place when reading. Simply clip the bookmark on the page where you left off, and return to it when you are ready. Each set consists of two bookmarks featuring landmarks of our beautiful slice

When Olivia Houston’s need to let go collides with her reason to move on, she finds herself thrust into a tomorrow she didn’t see coming. Ever since her husband’s death, anxiety has pitched its tent in the mind of thirty-two-year-old interior designer Oliv

One sun-drenched morning at Sea Oats Beach, Breanna Hart stumbles on the dead body of a surfer washed ashore. As the reality of her grim find sinks in, a movement in the water catches her eye—a chocolate Lab perched on a surfboard. Did the dog belong to th

Breanna Hart is volunteering at the animal shelter and living her best life in a North Carolina beach town, but that changes whe

A more mismatched couple one could not imagine. Dev, a combat veteran, whose family business is military arms manufacturing enjoys going on safaris and hunting trips. Gentry, a sweet, unpretentious animal rescuer and veterinary student whose girl-next-door

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.

Mailbox by the Sea is a love story filled with suspense and an ending you will never forget. The ultimate beach read is here. Amy Cole has her entire life mapped out by her mother, Catherine. Finish high school, attend Juilliard School in New York and become a famous concert violinist. Amy reluctantly agrees to her mother's plans. Everything changes during summer break after her junior year of high school. That's when she meets Mason at Carolina Beach. He is the most unique guy she has ever known. Their innocent summer romance evolves into falling deeply in love. Amy and Mason are subjected to a series of schemes orchestrated by her mother to end their relationship. They are eventually torn apart. Years later, Mason receives a mysterious letter written by Amy's aunt. The letter sends Mason on a quest to visit a mailbox on a beach Amy spoke frequently about. Known as Kindred Spirit, Amy and her aunt would frequently visit the mailbox to read the expressions of love and loss left by people from all over the world. What will happen when Mason accepts the letter's request to be at the Kindred Spirit Mailbox on a certain day and time? It's an ending that will stay with you a long time.

60 butterfly species, both common and exotic, found in the following states: Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina

Amidst the dunes of Bird Island, North Carolina, stands Kindred Spirit mailbox, where visitors leave their thoughts and prayers. A visitor writes of her broken marriage, pouring out her heart into the journals left in the box. Memories of her first love, surface---then he walks back into her life. Does she dare love again? Sounds like a great story! Try it! Share it! Visit it!

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.

Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother's early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . . but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways. Illuminating heartbreaking regrets and enduring hope, Every Breath explores the many facets of love that lay claim to our deepest loyalties while asking a life-changing question: How long can a dream survive?

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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!

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