These Summer Storms
By Sarah MacLean
- Release Date: 2025-07-08
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family’s long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.
“Deliciously impossible to put down.”—Jodi Picoult
“Addictive.”—Ali Hazelwood
“A gripping inheritance drama, wrapped around a swoony summer romance.”—The New York Times Book Review
Alice Storm hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years—not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything.
Alice plans to keep her head down, pay her final respects (such as they are), and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his family a final challenge—an inheritance game designed to upend their world. The rules are clear: spend one week on the island, complete their assigned tasks, and receive the inheritance.
But a whole week on Storm Island is no easy task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with chaos: Her older sister’s secret love affair. Her brother’s unyielding arrogance. Her younger sister’s constant analysis of the vibes. Her mother’s cold judgment. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father’s intriguing and too-handsome second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape unscathed.
A smart and tender story about the transformative power of grief, love, and family, this luscious novel explores past secrets, present truths, and futures forged in the wake of wild summer storms.
Reviews
Twisty, sexy read full of family secrets!
5By YdnewRGood characters and relationships- fun to view the world through the eyes of the progeny of a billionaire tech mogul. Some surprises and a great setting.Weak
2By RiverSceneThe beginning was interesting but ultimately it didn’t engage me and was a waste of time.Hated the ending
2By AndrealynnstuartfarrisThis would have been such a great book but the ending was terrible! Such a bummer.These Summer Storms
2By nickscott43Really a terrible read. Constantly repetitive material in overly wordy sentences. It seems as if the author was trying to turn a short story into a novel.Excellent debut in the contemporary genre
5By LeslieR in HBAuthor Sarah MacLean is well known for her bestselling and award winning historical romances and young adult novels. “These Summer Storms” is her debut contemporary novel. Innovative inventor billionaire Franklin Storm has died, and his daughter Alice returns to the family island after a fight with her dad resulted in 5 years of exile. Franklin was a genius but also competitive and controlling, and his final communications to his family are conditions they must meet in order to inherit from his estate. Family dramas are not my favorite type of book, and the Storm family definitely has problems relating to each other. Sometimes I was impatient when they fell into old patterns, especially since the siblings are adults in their 30’s, but over the course of a week the widow and four siblings establish new ways of relating to each other as family secrets are revealed. I was drawn in by the characters and relationships, and there were plenty of unexpected twists in this family drama. And for fans of Sarah MacLean’s historical romances, there is still a HEA ending to satisfy. This is a review of an ARC provided via NetGalley.
