Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey – a Review

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Description:
When Charlotte Sitterly’s husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of their house by the FBI and—what’s potentially even worse—thrust into the spotlight of @JuniperShoresSocialite, the town’s snarky anonymous Instagram account. Cut off from her bank accounts and feeling desperate, Charlotte takes up an acquaintance’s offer to stay at a beachfront former bed-and-breakfast that’s home to a community of single mothers and draws plenty of gossip in the small coastal North Carolina town.

Charlotte and Iris find solace and are surprised by how much fun they’re having with the other families despite their circumstances. But when the women discover a secret link between them, it changes everything they thought they knew about the unconventional family they’ve created and leaves them wondering whether their coming together was a coincidence at all. Will the skeletons in the mommune closets help Charlotte and Iris reclaim their place in the Juniper Shores community—or shatter the sisterhood forever?

Review:

Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey is a wonderful sweet story. We meet Charlotte Sitterly, who has been shut out of their home by the FBI, due to her husband, Bill being arrested for suspected fraud. Charlotte and her 14-year-old daughter, Iris, have lost her assets, and while trying to get some money at the bank, she hears a woman behind her offering a place to stay.

Alice invites them to move into her house (former Bed & Breakfast), where she also has two other women staying at her home with their children.  They call the home “Mommune”, which is a unique living arrangement with Alice’s wonderful Beach House by the beach. Charlotte and Iris are thrilled to have a place to stay; with a wonderful group that makes a family. Alice, a widow; Julie, single mom of three; and Grace, with two teens.  The women embrace living together and helping each other, and the children become close friends.

Charlotte is determined to find a way to prove her husband’s innocence.  The ladies and kids work together to help clear Charlotte’s husband’s name.  I really enjoyed the different POV’s from Charlotte, Iris and Alice.  Iris gets help from friends who gather around her, and she begins to work on solving the financial documents, that were not done by her father. Together everyone in the Beach House were able find a way to free Charlottes husband. 

Beach House Rules was a wonderful, enjoyable and heartwarming story; with friendship, women, community & found family.  I really enjoy this story, which was filled with love, compassion and intrigue.   Beach House Rules was very well written by Kristy Woodson Harvey.

Reviewed by Barb

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