Madeleine Jaimes

How long will she stay in that space in between?The day Julia Salinger admits to her girlfriends she has a drinking problem, she vows to do something about it. Spending time in a recovery center helps. So does attending AA meetings and therapy. But the thing that saves her, day after day, is fixing breakfast for strangers.It's routine. It gets her out of bed every morning.While she and her husband, Mark, had dreams of operating their Old Louisville B&B together, her drinking put an end to that dream-and their marriage. And while Mark still shares in the business venture, the running of the inn is Julia's responsibility.And all goes well, until it doesn't.Despite therapy, Julia still wrestles with the cause of her drinking-her difficulty coping with the loss of their stillborn child, months of bourbon binges covering up her grief. But now that she's sober, grief surfaces in other ways.Her father pressures her to return to the family law firm. A friend from AA dies of an overdose. She hears a baby crying in the attic and is certain her Victorian era home is haunted. She craves the sweet oaky taste of bourbon and caves to a night of binge drinking. She doesn't get up to fix breakfast the next morning.Mark gives her an ultimatum-get her act together or he's taking over the B&B.Julia decides her best therapy is the beach and heads to Tuckaway Bay for solace, healing, and her girlfriends. A secluded cottage at the end of the Sea Glass Inn Resort becomes her sanctuary, where she lets very few people into her life for weeks-except for the older man who fishes in front of her cottage every day.

Beach therapy, they call it, with a twist of lime.Six women return to the same beach house in Tuckaway Bay, the same week in August, for over twenty years, drinking and laughing their past year's problems away. Beach therapy, they call it, with a twist of lime.Lia contemplates a surprise marriage proposal from her long-term partner-one she doesn't want. Maggie questions the arrangement she made with her husband years earlier. Julia fights depression after a horrible loss. Wren worries about the legalities of her sister's business, while her twin, Willow, avoids a medical issue. And Alice? Her life is perfect. Right.As their troubles escalate and beach week unravels, the women realize no amount of beach therapy will solve their problems this year.Alice divulges a secret. Wren and Willow disappear. Maggie faces an impossible family situation. Julia confesses her addiction. And Lia wrestles with a twenty-year-old decision when an old summer love shows up at their beach house.Can beach week, and their friendships, survive? Even with tequila?Beach Therapy launches a multi-book women's fiction series featuring the barrier island beach town of Tuckaway Bay. Come dive into six women's lives, loves, relationships, heartaches, family issues, and more The series releases in 2024 and continues....