Are You Ready for Some Summer Suspense with Mary Alice Monroe?
It is that time of year again when Mary Alice Monroe sends out a new story into the world. This year her story is The Summer Guest . You will see some familiar characters and some new ones. The story focuses this year on animals escaping a hurricane, or more specifically horses. Pull up a chair and sit back with a glass of tea and escape to North Carolina. Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast—the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it’s also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips’s daughter Moira and her rescue dogs, famed equestrian Javier Angel de la Cruz, makeup artist Hannah McLain, horse breeder Gerda Klug an...