At thirty, the only life Frankie has known is helping her mother run a shop selling movie memorabilia. When her mother dies, she’s devastated and doesn’t know whether financially she’ll be able to continue to run the store.
When she receives a package containing two letters and photograph that her step-father found among her mother’s things, she’s introduced to a life her mother had before she was born and one she’s never talked about. Frankie is surprised to see her mother in a group of people including Mitch Beckett and Glory Cartwright, a glamour couple from the early Hollywood days.
Although she could sell the letter in the shop for a great deal of money since they appear to be the last letters Glory wrote, she decides instead to go to Harpswich, Massachusetts where the picture was taken. She may even find a clue to who her real father is.
This story is told in two time periods: Frankie in the present and her mother in 1989. I often don’t like stories split between time periods because one is usually more interesting than the other. However, in this case the split worked well to give us a comprehensive view of the important characters in the story. The characters were well drawn. I felt that we got to know all of them and sympathize with their actions.
I recommend this book if you enjoy romance and secrets. It’s a perfect beach read.
I received this book from Net Galley for this review.
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