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the meaning of faith and family as one couple’s search to complete their home merges with one child’s need of a lifesaving second chance. Once again, Nan Rossiter weaves together a multilayered tale of the endurance of love and a reminder that the things we most wish for can come true, if we’re open to receiving them in unexpected ways. These characters stayed with me long after the last page was turned!”

—Hannah McKinnon, author of The View from Here

“An intimate portrayal of a family in crisis, with good character development and a bucolic setting.”

—Publishers Weekly on Words Get in the Way

“Nostalgic and tender . . . [The Gin & Chowder Club] summons the passion of first love, the pain of first loss, and the unbreakable bonds of family that help us survive both.”

—Marie Bostwick, New York Times bestselling author

“The setting, with its sea breeze and quaint charm, is immediately inviting, adding to the overall sense of familiarity that the author so beautifully evokes. . . . To read this book is to feel like you’ve come home.”

—Hartford Books Examiner on Summer Dance

“Rossiter accurately captures the nature of life’s fleeting passage and offers a meditation on the need to capture and hold on to every precious moment.”

—Connecticut Muse on Under a Summer Sky

“I am never disappointed with Nan Rossiter’s wonderful tales and her ability to include the love of animals. The delicious recipes included are just a plus in Under a Summer Sky. It’s refreshing to read a story of this caliber and be left with contentment and faith in the lasting bonds of family.”

—Fresh Fiction

“This captivating and emotional novel tells a heartwarming story about love lost and found, family secrets, and a lot of truth. The author’s true grit and honesty are a real eye-opener, and readers will enjoy the different time frames of flashbacks and future casts between the siblings and how they have grown. When tragedy strikes, we’re not quite sure what happens in between; it takes more than several factors to digest everything. But, the four very different sisters are now well past their fifties, and it’s amazing that their memories remain, as if the good ole days in Cape Cod just happened yesterday. This is the perfect book club pick.”

—RT Book Reviews (starred review) on Firefly Summer

“Real and touching . . . Firefly Summer makes a charming, ideal summer read.”

—The Recorder

“Nan Rossiter is at the peak of her storytelling abilities with Under a Summer Sky, which is told with the kind of compassion, grace, and wisdom that is nearly unrivaled in contemporary fiction.”

—Examiner.com

“Rossiter examines the effects of war, loss, and secrets in this coming-of-age book-within-a-book. There cannot be triumph without failure, or happiness without tragedy. Steadily paced and with a protagonist one can only root for, this is a great read for summer at the pool or beach. Fans of Elin Hildebrand and Nancy Thayer will enjoy this Nantucket tale.”

—Booklist on Nantucket

“There are moments of pure gold in a story that will touch readers’ hearts. With wonderful characters and a charming idyllic setting, Nantucket does pack an emotional wallop along the lines of a good Kristan Higgins book.”

—RT Book Reviews

“Rossiter returns to the characters from her novel Nantucket in this coming-of-age story. Sally Ryan, the proud owner of Nantucket coffee shop Cuppa Joe, is publishing a book about her life story. As readers learn, Sally had a very unremarkable childhood, living with her widowed father in Medford, Mass. Her life forever changes when she meets Drew McIntyre, gets pregnant, and marries him at a young age. Fearful of Drew and encumbered by Catholic guilt (she believes her miscarriage resulted from one of her misdeeds), Sally believes that the marriage can’t be dissolved. She travels to Nantucket, finds a place to stay, and begins working at a local coffee shop. After meeting Coop, a Vietnam vet, Sally enjoys their close friendship, which evolves into an on-again, off-again romance they try to keep secret. While the story of Sally’s life is a page-turner, it’s the manner in which she is finally able to reconcile her faith with her relationship with Coop that will resonate.”

—Publishers Weekly on Summer Dance

Also by Nan Rossiter

Promises of the Heart

Summer Dance

Firefly Summer

Nantucket

Under a Summer Sky

More Than You Know

Words Get in the Way

The Gin & Chowder Club

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

PROMISES TO KEEP. Copyright © 2021 by Nan Rossiter. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition APRIL 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-291776-8

Version 02262021

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291775-1 (pbk.)

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