"In The beach club, Mack Petersen has returned, as always, on the first day of May to once again open and manage the Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel alongside its owners, Bill and Therese Elliott. Years ago, Mack escaped the past and started over at this hotel, and it has since become his life and his home; but though he has poured his heart and soul into the club, he knows that it will eventually pass not to him but to Cecily Elliott, this owners' daughter."--Page 4 of cover. "In Summer people, Beth, a recent widow, can barely keep things together; but she still decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and fulfill a promise that her late husband, Arch, made before he died."--Page 4 of cover.