Golden Girl

A Nantucket author has one more summer to keep her secrets safe as her loved ones on Earth learn to live without their golden child in this #1 blockbuster page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine). Author of thirteen beach books and mother of three almost grown children, Vivian Howe, is murdered in a hit-and-run vehicle accident on a gorgeous June day while walking near her Nantucket home. Ascending to the Beyond, she is paired with a Person called Martha, who grants Vivi permission to see what transpires below for one more summer. Moreover, Vivi is given three "nudges" to alter the course of events on Earth. However, as Carson is a party animal, Willa is having her third miscarriage, and Leo is now "off again" with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she will need to exercise caution in deciding how to utilize them.

Watching from the Afterlife, Vivi sees "The Chief" Ed Kapenash look into her death, but her biggest concern is her last book—which holds a secret from her own childhood that may ruin her reputation. But as secrets are revealed, Vivi's family will have to face up to their past transgressions and current transgressions—with or without a little prodding from above—before she ultimately lets them go on without her.

Golden Girl is a beach novel unlike any other, filled with all of Elin's signature beach settings, delectable dinners, and picture-perfect residences, along with a profound message that the ones we lose never truly leave us.