INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in the second novel of her bestselling Summer series.
Olivia Jones, hard-working and accomplished, has, against the odds, blazed an enviable career path in the finance world. But behind the veneer of her success, she is mourning several devastating losses and betrayals. Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home in The Hamptons.
Here, Olivia finds a close-knit community of African American elites who escape New York City for the beautiful beaches of the Hamptons. Since the 1930s, very few have known about this Historically Black Beachfront Community, and the residents like it that way.
That is, until real estate developers discover the hidden gem. And now, the residents must fight for the soul of this HBBC.
As the summer stretches on, Olivia teams up with her new friends to protect their community and, in doing so, discovers who she really is. Though not without cost, Olivia’s search for her authentic identity and her fight to preserve her new Black utopia, will lead her to redefine the meaning of love, friendship, community, and family—and restore her faith in herself and her chosen path.
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“An elite Black enclave in the Hamptons welcomes its newest resident, hoping she’ll help preserve the integrity of the community…The family history is complicated and will be quite a bit easier to follow if you’ve recently read the first book in the series, Summer on the Bluffs…The political and social dynamics of Sag Harbor are fascinating.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Sunny Hostin is the author of the novel Summer on the Bluffs, a New York Times bestseller, and a memoir, I Am These Truths. She is an Emmy-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View and a public speaker who has moderated panels for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the National Bar Association. As a former federal prosecutor, she was awarded with a Special Achievement Award by then Attorney General Janet Reno.
January LaVoy, winner of numerous awards for narration, was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She is an American actress best known for her character Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. In addition to working extensively in narration and television, including roles on Law & Order and All My Children, she has worked on and off Broadway as well as in regional theater.