A Summer for the Books by Michelle Lindo-Rice
MIRA (July 15, 2025)
Friendship/Secrets/Womens Fiction
Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Sunny Hostin will love this emotional dual-timeline novel about two former besties finding their way back to each other.
To heal their friendship, they’ll have to face their past.
Jewel Stone has it all—the perfect marriage, a bestselling author career, her dream home—or so she likes everyone to believe. But between her writer’s block and her husband losing his job, her picture-perfect life is in shambles. And inspiration just isn’t hitting…until she receives a call she never expected: her former best friend needs her help.
When Shelby Andrews wakes up in the hospital after a biking accident, she can’t remember the last twelve years. She knows she owns a bookstore on the beach, but she has no memory of Lacey, her nineteen-year-old adopted daughter who’s away for the summer. There’s only one person who can help Shelby through this—her bestie, Jewel.
With so many secrets and heartbreaks between them, Jewel and Shelby haven’t spoken in years. Yet Jewel can’t turn away from the friend who doesn’t remember their fallout. Besides, the best writing she’s ever done was with Shelby…
But when they learn Lacey’s really spending her summer searching for her birth parents, their tentative reunion might just unravel along with all of their secrets.
REVIEW
A story of a broken friendship, healing, and secrets. Told through three POVs with two timelines and a book within the book. At times it did get a bit muddled trying to keep it all straight. Overall, I enjoyed the book.
Reviewed by Comfy Chair Books/Lisa Reigel (June 14, 2025)
eARC provided by publisher via Netgalley; purchased copy via Brenda Novak Monthly Book Box (August 2025)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Lindo-Rice is the bestselling author of the “Able to Love” and “On The Right Path” series, a 2021 Vivian Award finalist and 2021 Emma Award winner. Michelle enjoys reading and crafting fiction across genres. Originally from Jamaica West Indies, she has earned degrees from New York University, SUNY at Stony Brook, Teachers College Columbia University, Argosy University and has been educator for over 20 years. Michelle writes for the Harlequin Special Edition line and she also writes as Zoey Marie Jackson for the Harlequin Love Inspired line. She is a member of CRW.
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