Chesapeake Summer (Mass Market Paperback)

by Jeanette Baker (Author)

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Bailey Jones is back in Marshy Hope Creek, Maryland, to sell his land, intending to return to New York, where his career as an artist is flourishing. Bailey's beginnings were less than auspicious as the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white father, and few are happy to see him, the exception being Chloe Richards, home from college for the summer. They are drawn to each other, but Bailey tries to keep his distance. When a surveyor discovers a body on Bailey's land, two distinguished families, including Chloe's, are assailed by painful memories. Her grandfather was a distinguished lawyer at odds with the town's other scion, Quentin Wentworth. Both families have been keeping secrets that, once exposed, shed light on the racism of the past. Baker's wonderful follow-up to Chesapeake Tide (2004) is full of intrigue and family drama and spiced with a distinctly Southern flavor. Patty Engelmann
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"An intensely pleasurable read." -- Romantic Times BOOKreviews on The Lavender Field

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Mira (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778324591
• ISBN-13: 978-0778324591
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 3.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #298,292 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Geography , August 14, 2007

By	J. Cooper - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The story line of this book is very good, but the locations are totally off base. Salisbury is not close to the Chesapeake Bay and Marshy Hope Creek is near Federalsburg MD with no alligators in sight! It can get quite warm in the summer, but not like Georgia or Alabama as this author
suggests. Marshy Hope Creek is not on the same shore as the Patuxent
Naval Air Station. I find it difficult to read a book that is so mixed up in background information.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Service & book, November 29, 2008

By	Elaine Richmond "Elaine-Addict to books" (CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The service was excellent! I no sooner ordered the book and I had it! Or at least it seemed that way..Soo much better than looking at the book stores, paying the high prices and putting up with rude employees!
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5.0 out of 5 stars an entertaining second chance at love mystery, June 10, 2007

By	Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

When his mom died, he inherited her property in Marshy Hope Creek. Bailey Jones plans are simple when he returns home; get out ASAP. He will sell the property to a developer for a fortune and hook up with his friend Chloe Richards who has just come home too.

The townsfolk, who never liked bad boy Bailey, are irate when he announces his plan to sell. However, his scheme is placed on halt when workers digging on the land uncover the remains of a human. Bailey knows whoever interred the victim, most likely killed the prey; but remains ignorant to the fact that the predator watches very carefully the inquiry and is prepared to cause more deaths to keep the deadly secret concealed.

CHESAPEAKE SUMMER, the sequel to the exciting romantic suspense CHESAPEAKE TIDE, is an entertaining second chance at love mystery. Bailey is terrific as Chloe and some others prove his uncaring bad boy persona is all facade and image. Although the killer is obvious, readers will enjoy the return to the Chesapeake Bay area as more than the culprit fears what law enforcement will uncover as the icons have skeletons in their closets that could scandalize their family name and nothing is as sacred as their untainted blue blooded pedigree.

Harriet Klausner