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Biographical Note:
Kristy Woodson Harvey is the
New York Times,
USA TODAY, and
Publishers Weekly bestselling author of fourteen novels, including
Summer State of Mind,
Beach House Rules, and the Peachtree Bluff series. Many of her novels are in stages of option or development for film and television. She has been featured on
Good Morning America, in
Southern Living,
Cosmopolitan,
People, and many others. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including
Parade,
Traditional Home,
USA TODAY,
Country Living, and many more. Kristy is the cocreator and cohost of the hit weekly web show and podcast
Friends & Fiction with fellow
New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. She is also the cofounder of the award-winning interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson. She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always!) working on her next novel.
Publisher Marketing:
Welcome to Peachtree Bluff: a cozy coastal town where family secrets refuse to be washed away by the tide and close-knit community is everything. As New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey reunites the Murphy crew just in time for pumpkin spice season, "we dare you not to wish you were a member of this family" (E!).
Eldest sister Caroline has never been happier. The family business is thriving, her kids are great, and her sister Emerson's hunky costar has absolutely swept her off her feet. But when her not-quite-ex-husband decides it's high time he begged Caroline for a second chance, she is thrown into the midst of a love triangle she never saw coming. Caroline is the family fixer and, when her sisters Sloane and Emerson and daughter Vivi need her help with
their troubles, she has to decide whether to swoop in and save them--or if it's finally time to focus on what
she wants.
Matriarch Ansley and her new husband, Jack, have finally hit their stride. But when a scandal rips through Peachtree Bluff--and Jack just might be at the center of it--Ansley is left questioning whether the man she has loved since she was sixteen years old, the man she fought so hard to be with, is actually who she thought he was at all.
The air is crisper, the water is calmer, but, when it comes to the Murphy family, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems... Through it all, these Southern women must rely on their powerful family bonds and the quirky characters and small-town charm of the place that, no matter what, always calls them home. This is the kind of heartfelt fall treat that "readers will unwrap with glee" (Mary Kay Andrews,
New York Times bestselling author) from the "go-to for elevated beach reads" (
People).
Review Citations:
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Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 79 (EAN 9781668219300, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Harvey, Kristy Woodson
Kristy Woodson Harvey is the
New York Times,
USA TODAY, and
Publishers Weekly bestselling author of fourteen novels, including
Summer State of Mind,
Beach House Rules, and the Peachtree Bluff series. Many of her novels are in stages of option or development for film and television. She has been featured on
Good Morning America, in
Southern Living,
Cosmopolitan,
People, and many others. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including
Parade,
Traditional Home,
USA TODAY,
Country Living, and many more. Kristy is the cocreator and cohost of the hit weekly web show and podcast
Friends & Fiction with fellow
New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. She is also the cofounder of the award-winning interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson. She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always!) working on her next novel.
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