On Ocean Boulevard by Mary Alice Monroe

On Ocean Boulevard by Mary Alice Monroe is the sixth book in the Beach House series. Just in time for summer, the novel brings Linnea Rutledge home from California to the barrier islands of Charleston, S.C. Here her Aunt Cara is about to get married again, which might mean finally giving up her mother's Primrose Cottage for a larger home for her daughter Hope and Cara's new husband.

As throughout the seres, the loggerhead turtles' journey is a subplot as Linnea gets back into the group that monitors the sea turtles. Linnea gets an internship with Aunt Cara at the aquarium and a British import may just capture her heart.

Alas, while everything is going well, tragedy strikes when a terrible illness overcomes one of the Rutledge family members causing many other things to go off-course.

Mary Alice Monroe is a long-time favorite author of beach reads. This is her 23rd novel. Monroe is a conservationist and a turtle lady in South Carolina, where she lives with her husband. They also have a hideaway in the mountains somewhere in North Carolina. Her Beach House novel was recently made into a movie on Hallmark.