29. One Perfect Summer by Brenda Novak

listened on Audible

narrated by Erin Bennett -- Excellently

Unabridged audio (12:40)
2020
464 pgs.
Adult CRF
Finished 3/31/2021
Goodreads rating:  4.04 - 4218 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary Lake Tahoe, California, summertime

First line/s: "Gripping the steering wheel tightly, Serenity Alston navigated the winding freeway heading east toward Donner Summit."

My comments: Three women discover, through DNA testing, that they are sisters.  They had NO clue.  They end up finding each other, then spending a summer together in a cabin on Lake Tahoe where they not only get to know each other, but support each other in each of their individual difficulties with life.  Serenity, the eldest, helped to put her husband in Jail.  Regan, the middle sister has just had an affair with her married boss and iss suffering the consequences of that.  Lauralee, the youngest, mother of four-year-old Lucy, has just discovered that her husband not only had an affair with her best friend, but that best friend is now pregnant.  So, yeah, three up-and-down love stories and the description of how three women who had never known each other before become inseparable.  Just a little too sappy and disjointed for me.  Excellent narrator.

Goodreads synopsis:  When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
           Serenity has always found solace at her family's Lake Tahoe cabin, so what better place for the three women to dig into the mystery that has shaken the foundation each of them was raised on? With Reagan navigating romantic politics at her New York City advertising firm, and Lorelei staring down the collapse of her marriage, all three women are converging at a crossroads in their lives. Before the summer is over, they'll have to confront the paths they walked to get there and determine how to move forward when everything they previously thought to be true was a lie.
          But any future is easier to face with family by your side