Thanks to the publisher, Thomas Nelson, and the author Denise Hunter for the early copy of this read.

While this was the first book by Denise Hunter I've ever read, I did thoroughly enjoyed the story line and how quickly I was able to get into the story and enjoy how the author incorporated me, as a reader, into the story and be able to step right into that summer atmosphere.

It's a great story of secrets and family drama and the author really excels at writing about these issues.

4/5 stars

When you just find out the man you are dating has taken a job you wanted and cheated what else can happen. You get a call from you grandmothers neighbor saying she is missing. When you arrive you meet the neighbor to find out he also called your sisters. Your sisters have not spoken in years. This book goes through each of the characters hurts, trust issues and pain. This family has hurt that is out for everyone to see and some hurt hidden. Everyone has to work through all of these and get back to living.

Summer By The Tides is a delightful, easy to read, easy to enjoy romance. There have been many Christian contemporary titles published recently that feature broken sisterly relationships and the slow mending of these bonds, but Summer By The Tides is by far my favourite. Touching on some tough and thoughtful tones, it remains a lighthearted, sunshine filled and feel good story of love, family and fresh starts.

The day Maddy Monroe discovers her boyfriend is a lying cheater and that she has lost the promotion at work, she gets a phone call saying her grandmother has gone missing. It’s easy to jump in the car and return to her childhood summer house on the beach, harder to face her two sisters and the memories of what tore her family apart all those years ago. With the help of her grandmother’s neighbour, Connor, Maddy and her sisters search for their missing grandmother and get the house in order, sifting through memories and facing the secrets of the past.

While the synopsis for Summer By The Tides focuses on Maddy’s relationships with her sisters, the story is actually centred around the blooming romance between Maddy and Connor and Maddy’s own experiences with and beliefs about love. I really enjoyed the sweet romance that Connor and Maddy share. They certainly don’t start out as a perfect couple. Maddy is quick to judge Connor and it’s hard for Connor to see past Maddy’s harsh and judgmental facade. As they start to work together, though, they both have to re-evaluate their initial impressions and they find they actually make a pretty great couple. Both have their reasons for shying away from a relationship, Connor lost his young wife and Maddy has plenty of reason to be distrustful of men. They have their bumps and ups and downs, but their connection is hard to ignore. I loved the little moments they shared over food (Maddy’s world) or sailing (Connor’s domain). Very sweet.

Maddy’s sisters and the family as a whole have experienced some tough relationship breakdowns. Maddy ends up playing referee a lot of the time and carries her own guilt from what transpired all those summers ago. The chance to live together, work together gives the sisters the time to work through some of that painful history, current hardships and the guilt and anger that has kept them captive. Yet, Summer By The Tides retains a lighthearted and warm story, making it the perfect summer (or anytime) beach (or anywhere) read.

The publishers provided an advanced readers copy of this book for reviewing purposes. All opinions are my own.

This novel had a bit of a bumpy start. I just couldn't connect with the heroine, Maddy. The opening scenes were difficult to follow, packed with cliches, and read like a giant info dump. I felt the characters lacked the usual depth I've come to expect from a Denise Hunter novel. However, I'm so glad I didn't give up because the story got very interesting once Maddy and Connor got over their initial dislike for each other and the romance sparked. Lots of sexual tension, intriguing backstory and a deeper inspirational message that Christian fiction readers will appreciate. The secondary characters were great and I enjoyed the description of the beach, as well.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a complimentary ARC. All opinions stated here are my own.

This is my first Denise Hunter book and it won’t be my last. She has such a way with characters and storyline.
A perfect beach read !

Summer by the Tides is a beautiful story of love, hope, and forgiveness. A visit to Sea Haven, North Carolina made me feel like I was on vacation. The memories embedded in Gram's cottage, from family summers of the past, creates tension between the sisters. The kind of tension that made me keep turning the pages. While Maddy tries to figure out her life, Gram's handsome neighbor, Connor, reaches out to the family. The story of three sisters is intriguing. This is a perfect summer read. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson via NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Whew! This story begins smack dab in action and emotion. As with every story I've ever read by Denise Hunter, I was enthralled from the word go! The characters are believable and I connected with ease. I love the family dynamics, the beach scene, and the touching romance. You really can't go wrong with a Hunter book. She's a wonderful storyteller who creates fictional characters that end up feeling like old friends.

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Summer By the Tides was a quick read for me. Maddy is upset by the uneipected, losing her job and her grandma gone missing. Her two sisters and their estranged relationship, are sometimes hard to deal with. Maddy has no idea that her family has so many secrets.Toss in the handsome man next door and there is a storm brewing.

What can I say but, another winner!
Denise Hunter is a master at crafting heartwarming romance with a great message and this book is no different!
Great for a day or two at the beach, or if you can't get to the beach this is a perfect"summer read" that can transport you there without having to travel!
I loved how this book wove a story about reconciliation and having the courage to love.
Absolutely recommended!
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the Publisher through Netgalley. My opinion is my own.

Summer by the Tides is an easy comfortable read. Three sisters, estranged, converge on their grandmother's beach cottage aster a concerned neighbor discovers she is missing. All three sisters have secrets, which are gradually revealed. Even the grandmother, who pops up, has a few secrets to share. It's a great beach read about warm characters who realize they all need each other.

Summer by the Tides is one of my new favorite Denise Hunter novels. A perfect blend of family, faith, and romance, it was everything I hope for when picking up one of Hunter’s books.

Maddy loses her job and her boyfriend all at the same time so there is nothing holding her back from going to look in on her grandmother when she gets a call from her concerned neighbor. The concerned neighbor also called Maddy’s two estranged sisters, Nora and Emma. Nora and Emma had a falling out twenty years prior and are both still holding grudges. It makes things really uncomfortable when they all show up at their grandmother’s and then decide to stay there to help fix the place up. All the characters were pretty likable, though sometimes frustrating. The secrets that are discovered during their stay were not anything surprising – except there was an extra twist on one that I wasn’t expecting.

I really liked the concerned neighbor, Connor. He was such a sweet and stand-up guy. I loved his relationship with his sisters. I really shipped his growing relationship with Maddy, too. He was exactly the kind of guy that Maddy needed and he was extremely patient with her skittishness. Things did get just a little too cheesy at times when it came to the romance, but I’ll take sappy over graphic any day.

Overall, I really enjoyed Summer by the Tides. It was a cute, quick read that I flew right through. I liked the message of faith and trusting in God and felt it was incorporated really well into the characters’ lives and didn’t come off as preachy. I liked seeing Maddy and her sisters work through their issues and discover family secrets. I liked that reconciliation was shown as a process and small steps and not just a magical fix where everything is all of a sudden fine. I definitely recommend this one to Denise Hunter fans.

Overall Rating (out of 5): 4 Stars

Ms. Hunter has done it once again! Another wonderful read that needs to be on your tbr list this summer. Full review coming soon

Summer by the Tides is another great Christian Fiction read by award winning Denise Hunter.
Maddie Monroe was up for a promotion at the restaurant she loves until the day she hears her boyfriend and her boss talking about him getting the promotion and she witnesses them kissing. Maddie is so hurt that when she receives a call from Connor Sullivan, her grandmother's neighbor, informing, her that her grandmother is missing, she leaves her job and boyfriend behind to go to her family's beach house in Seahaven. Maddie's estranged sisters receive the same phone call and they all come together for a very stressful reunion full of secrets, painful betrayal, romance and healing, I thank NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for allowing me to read and review this book, expressing my own opinions.

I enjoyed this first novel in Denise Hunter's new series. When Gram goes "missing," sisters, Maddy, Nora, and Emma get called to picturesque Sea Haven, North Carolina. We quickly learn that the sisters are not happy to be reunited stemming from a betrayal when they were younger. The sisters have to learn to work together and hopefully forgive. Of course, with a Denise Hunter book, you have to have some romance involved, and we get that with handsome next door neighbor,,Connor. The story focuses on the point of view of Maddy, who has issues trusting men and Connor, who is still grieving the death of his wife. Denise Hunter weaves a fun but moving contemporary Christian fiction story that is perfect for a beach read. I look forward to reading further books in the series that I assume with continue the story through the other sisters' perspectives.
Thank you to Thomas Nelson for providing a copy of this novel through Netgalley.

A story of three sisters and the hurt and betrayal that stands between them. Maddy, Nora, and Emma are all called to Sea Haven, North Carolina when there Gram goes missing. Conner the helpful neighbor calls them all not realizing that having all three of them together is not a good idea. Emma still carries the hurt from twenty years ago caused by Nora. When all three of them are forced together during a hurricane they all three finally own up to their past hurt and what is presently going on in their lives. Along the way, Maddy falls in love with Conner and realizes that you can't judge a book by its cover. This is a story of hurt, betrayal, forgiveness and love.

This was a fresh breath of air after so many thrillers out there. I love the christian aspect also in the book. At first I was worried about the Grandma who was missing. I am glad they reviled her whereabouts early in the book. I love how the sisters relationships were repaired as well.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.

Other reviewers have posted fairly detailed synopses, and I will not repeat their efforts here.

The story is well-written, albeit quite predictable, with familiar story elements, We have the heroine Maddy who has just been betrayed, losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, combined with the conveniently-timed phone call alerting her that her grandmother has gone missing, and thus she must travel to the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers. Both of her older sisters also show up, and thus begin the fireworks, with Maddy trying to step back into her chronic (and unsuccessful) peacemaker role. In bits and pieces and flashbacks we learn what drove the older sisters apart in the first place (again, quite predictable), and we gradually learn that not all is well in either of their present lives.

Meanwhile, the hero of the piece, workaholic neighbor Connor, quietly bleeds from his own devastating losses.

As the sisters begin to fix up and clean out their grandmother's home, more and more details from the past come to light, and eventually, this being a romance novel, all the loose ends get tied up in neat little bows and everyone is on track to live happily ever after.

I gave the book 3 stars because although it is well-written, it is far too predictable for my taste. I expect that readers who appreciate predictability will enjoy it very much.

This was my first Denise Hunter novel and I will definitely be reading more. I love beach stories and thoroughly enjoyed reading about Maddy and Connor. Will Maddy open her heart to him?The author did a great job in writing about the sister’s strained relationships. I highly recommend this novel of love, faith, and forgiveness. Thanks to Thomas Nelson and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Denise Hunter does it again by writing a great summer romance! This will be a great book to read at the beach this summer (or anytime or anywhere). In this latest release by Ms. Hunter, we learn about a set of sisters- Maddy, Nora, and Emma who have a struggling relationship with each other. Both the three of them love their grandmother. Each receive a phone call that she is missing so they all arrive to discover where their grandmother could be. The phone call was from their grandmother’s neighbor, Connor. Connor tries to help the girls, but has problems of his own. Together, they work on restoring the beach house and going through their grandmother’s belongings. During their cleaning, they discover things that they never knew. During their time together at the beach house, they must learn to live together in harmony. Can they overcome the hurts of the past? As always Ms. Hunter writes another fantastic romantic book! This book examines old hurts, forgiveness, and how to move past the past. I highly recommend this book! You will not be disappointed!
***I was given a free electronic copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. This is my honest opinion. Even though I received this copy free, I have purchased her books before.

I can't tell you the last time I picked up a book and was compelled to hold onto it until the end. I didn't want to put it down and I didn't want it to end. I love how Denise weaves themes of forgiveness and new starts in so many of her stories. This story about sisters is touching and vulnerable and grabs you from the first page. I do not have siblings, so I wasn't sure how I would relate, but found it to be an irrelevant point. The characters are so believable, I felt like I was right there with them. I went from laughing to cheering, to crying to rejoicing. A definite must read.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.