Summertime Nights - Katie Winters

Summertime Nights

By Katie Winters

  • Release Date: 2021-06-01
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 57 Ratings

Description

The Remington Sisters and Janine and Nancy Grimson unite for a final month of Martha's Vineyard summertime splendor as they fight to heal the broken women of Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa -- and one another.

As a child, Carmella Remington was boisterous, alive -- always one to move too fast, laugh too long, feel too deeply. She was the middle child of Neal Remington, the fraught one between Elsa and Colton. Until one day, Carmella made one of the biggest mistakes of her life -- a mistake so wretched that it cost Colton's life.

In the wake of this, Carmella's entire life changed forever. Her mother could no longer look her in the eye, resulting in even more trauma for Carmella, especially when her mother died a few years later. Carmella built up thick walls and allowed only one woman: her stepmother, Karen, to penetrate them. Soon after, Elsa and Neal seemed to conspire against Carmella, which resulted in Neal divorcing Karen.

Carmella was alone, yet again.

Since then, Carmella has worked tirelessly at the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa. She's a fantastic acupuncturist and takes pleasure in providing healing and wellness to women from all over the world. Naturally, she's never allowed such healing for her soul. She wouldn't even begin to know how.

But this summer, everything has begun to change. Her father died six months before; Nancy, her current stepmother, along with Nancy's daughter, Janine, and even Elsa, Carmella's once-enemy, have joined together to make the Katama Lodge better than ever. And Carmella senses a shift in the love that swirls around them -- one that allows her, finally, to begin the healing process she should have been allowed thirty years previously.

Along the way, she just might find all the things her life has been missing -- love, companionship, wealth, and loyalty. It's a new dawn for Carmella Remington. The past can stay in the past. It is time to build.

Dive into book three of The Katama Bay Series -- a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with its gorgeous ocean views, its endless summer days, and its bubbly cast of islanders.

For fans of Susan Mallery, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber.

Reviews

  • Katie Winter’s Summertime Nights

    5
    By Carol M Smith
    Come along to summertime in Martha’s Vineyard. The scenery is beautiful described making the reader feel as if they are right there with the characters. This is Carmella Remington’s story. Carmela is an acupuncturist at her family’s Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa. Carmella is haunted by family trials both old and new that she still has to face. At a conference away from the Vineyard, she meets a man who seems truly interested in her. She trusts him and figures she will never see him again so she spills all her woes. But when a celebrity shows up at the Lodge so does this man. Turns out he is a reporter and uses Carmella story against her. With the veil of her feelings toward her family making front page news she is forced to face all her old feelings and distrusts. But her story is hurting the Lodge’s reputation and cancellations are happening every day. Carmella has to turn the tides making peace with her family. Will she be able to do this? I felt this to be an emotionally riveting storyline line that will keep the read glued to the story from the first to the last page. Will love and forgiveness prevail? Will Carmella save the Katama Lode and Wellness Spa? Will her family finally accept her unconditionally? I volunteered to read Summertime Nights. Thanks to the author for the opportunity. My opinion is voluntary and my own. This is book # 3 in the Katama Bay series.