Osprey Island - Thisbe Nissen

As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel - are underway for the busy season.
On maintenance and housekeeping there's Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge's owners, who's looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local,
who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm,
an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance,
of loyalties and betrayals;
and of lingering-sometimes fleeting-joy.