Summer at the cape by Raeanne Thayne shows us two important things in our life i.e. Forgiveness and Family.

A very well written story with lot of emotions mixed into it. Highly Recommend it to all readers.

this was a really good book. I really enjoyed the diversity of this book, touching on a twins death, dementia and divorce. It is one of those books that once you pick it up you won't be able to put it down. I highly recommend it.

Thank you Harlequin and net galley for allowing me to read this title for an honest review.

A family is grieving
At Lily's heroic but untimely leaving.
A call from her Mum tells Cami Porter
She needs help from her oldest daughter.

Lily lost her life successfully saving two others
But her death unexpectedly uncovers
Lease signing problems, dreams that could fail,
Can Cami help solve them and have hope prevail?

This is a story filled with family dramas,
A machete, dementia, fate and karma.
A second chance romance or two
And a new one, too!

Finding out family secrets, taking a chance
Learning to trust and love again, attending a dance.
A beautiful coastal location and dreams
Can everything work out, we can hope it seems!

For my complementary copy of this book, I say thank you,
A healing, heartwarming read and this is my honest review.

Here’s a book with the summer feels, in fact, it has ALL the feels.

RaeAnne Thayne has done it again weaving together a heart touching story of family, healing and romance. My favorite part? Wild Hearts. A glamping campground. Yes! There is glamping!We should all pack our bags and head to Cape Sanctuary this summer.

I love a story centered on sisters. The family dynamics in this book were very interesting. And Cami as the odd sister out was very relateable.


As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up—while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child’s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle the complicated estate issues her sister left behind.

Navigating their own strained relationship, Cami readjusts to the family and community she hasn’t known for decades, including the neighbor who stands in the way of her late sister’s dream, while Violet grieves the loss of her twin and struggles to figure out who she is now, without her other half, as the little girl Lily saved pulls her back into the orbit of the man she once loved.

~~~ I received a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review ~~~

RaeAnne Thayne books are always enjoyable- you can always count on her for a good summer read! This book was really enjoyable for me. I loved the characters and the relationship-connections between them. This book takes place on the California coast where family is struggling through the death of a young woman, Lily. Her twin Violet, her other sister Camilia, and her mother Rosemary are grieving together and working to keep Lily's "glam ground" dream alive. And of course, two men enter the scene and fall for Violet and Camila ;) This is a story of healing, grief, family, and love. I'd highly recommend this book and any of Thayne's books. Great beach or vacation read!

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. This was a great read with deep characters, plot, and storyline. The cover doesn't match the book, in my opinion, but it is a great read.

Thanks to Book Club Cookbook and Harlequin Trade Publishing via Get Red PR for an advance reader copy, plus NetGalley for a digital copy. All comments and opinions are my own.

This was an easy-to-read summer beach book. Romance, romance, and romance….it’s no surprise when all three couples work out their differences by the last page. But getting to that point are tangled family dynamics amid issues of forgiveness, as well as loss and grief.

While this is #4 in the series, it’s my first one and can easily be read as a standalone.

There are three sisters, two of them twins and one has recently died tragically while saving two young girls from a dangerous riptide. The setting is the beautiful and rugged Northern California Cape Sanctuary, which seems to be a stand-in for the actual town of Mendocino. The girls’ mother, divorced for over 10 years, asks the girls to come home and help with the newly launched upscale “glampground” of Wild Hearts.

In addition to the logistics of running the resort, each woman has an attraction to a man - mother Rosemary, older sister Cami, and remaining twin Violet. Author RaeAnne Thayne navigates between an enemies to lovers and two second chance romance storylines.

This book was just “OK” for me. I thought the characters were one-dimensional. Even with the chapters changing points of view between three characters, I didn’t really connect with or care about them. I liked the conceptual themes of family, loss, and forgiveness, but there weren’t any exciting or surprising plot developments, and the novel overall was very predictable.

If you want an easy beach read with an ending neatly tied up with a bow, this is the book for you.

An uplifting book on forgiveness and family. Love and loss, this book will tug on your heartstrings and bring you full circle. RaeAnne Thayne is an auto buy for me. She’s a wizard with her craft of words.

This is another heartwarming addition to RaeAnne Thayne's Cape Sanctuary series. This one touches on loss, betrayal, dementia, and a family's bonds fractured after divorce, all with a touch of romance. After reading a number of books by this author, I've picked up on some of writing habits which can be a little overly sweet and wholesome (the words lovely and dear are used a lot and characters are repeatedly talked about with their first and last name). At times her books can be a bit Hallmarky, but you come to expect that when you pick up one of her books and this one is no exception. You root for the characters to mend fences and heal from past hurts and find love in the end. This book delivers and is a delightful journey to get there.

This is part of a series, but you didn’t need to read the others. It was a sweet story. A story of family drama in a beautiful California coast town.

RaeAnne Thayne knows how to write a book about love and family and her last is no exception. Summer at the Cape takes place in a coastal Southern California town and it’s the sweetest blend of family, scenery and second chance romance. And it’s perfect for your beach bag!
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This is not an ordinary book with characters who live on the Cape. The characters are well developed and the story is interesting and well written. That said, it's a great summer beach read.

The perfect cover and the perfect summer read. I loved the multiple storylines. Can’t wait to see what RaeAnne comes out with next. I always enjoy her books.

Told from three sister's point of view, this romance novel tells a story of a divided family, love, loss and forgiveness.
Summer at the Cape fits the bill as a satisfying summer beacxh read.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley. Review based on final copy. All opinions are my own.
While I haven’t made the time to dig too deeply into RaeAnme Thayne’s backlist, I already love how she captures the small-town cozy vibes. And with Summer at the Cape, she does so again perfectly, with the addition of the summer weather.
While this book does lean more toward the women’s/general fiction side of the spectrum, Thayne’s background in romance allows her to write a compelling romantic arc, as well the more prominent, complex relationships among family. Nothing feels underdone, neglected, or superfluous.
I really liked both Cami and Violet, and the articulation of how they experienced their family dynamics then. The passing of Violet’s twin, Lily, has deeply changed said dynamics, particularly for Violet, as she was always closest to Lily, and struggling to figure out what her path is without her other half in her life. Meanwhile, there’s Cami, who never experienced the same closeness, and also lived separately from the twins and their mother for years after their mother divorced their father. Her story is otherwise fairly familiar: the city-girl who falls in love with the small town. However, it’s the personal, familial touches that make her story stand out.
Both Cami and Violet have romances that complement their personal arcs, and they are both well executed. Cami’s love interest, Jon, is an additional point of view, offering another perspective outside that of the two sisters. His story is very similar to Cami’s, in that he has also returned to tend to family business. Their respective love and care for their families serves to help bring them together, even as there are some things that initially cause tension. And Violet’s second chance romance in the wake of her grief is so beautiful, and I rooted for her to take the chance on love.
This book hits all the right notes, being sweet and heartfelt. If you enjoy a contemporary with a primary focus on family relationships and drama, with a generous helping of romance, I recommend giving this one a try.

I've loved RaeAnne Thayne for years and this was no different. I love how descriptive she always is and love reading about all the scenery in the books.

I'm not sure if I loved the relationship between John and Kami but maybe it will develop more in later books.

Still glad to have read this installment in the series.

Everyone knows the best part of summer is all the wonderful new books out! I read book 3 in the Cape Sanctuary series last summer and I was so impressed with the story. It was incredibly heartfelt and genuine, so I was thrilled to see a fourth book!

Summer at the Cape had me from the title alone! This book follows a family after a heroic tragedy. Lily drowned after saving two young children in the local waters, and her older sister Cami has come to help her family get back on their feet during this terrible time. She’s not too close with her family after her parents divorced when she was only 14 and she went to live with her father while her younger twin sisters stayed with her mom. Cami is forced to deal with the loss of her sister as well as these uncomfortable feelings of estrangement.

Picking up where Lily left off isn’t that easy. She was the owner of a glamping campground with a lease from an older man who is having memory issues. His young son can’t imagine his father would allow this and fights the lease hard. Cami’s background as an attorney comes in handy when fighting it! I love the different generations that are including in this novel.

I love this series and I truly hope RaeAnne continues the series, because I will definitely continue to read them! They are full of drama, compassion, warmth and are just fun to read. It’s definitely a series you could share with your family and friends as well.

Thank you so much to @htpbooks, @harlequinpublishing and the author for my gifted copy. Summer at the Cape is on sale now and would make a great addition to any beach bag!

So I requested this book because I thought it would be a book that I would like. But this is just not my type of book. I am not really into family drama. So I just did not like this one.

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Heart-wrenching, emotional and uplifting, much-loved author RaeAnne Thayne dazzles yet again with her latest novel, Summer at the Cape.

As the older sibling to identical twins Olivia and Lily, Cami Porter has always felt like the odd one out. When their parents had separated, the chasm that had divided them only grew wider and wider as the twins stayed with their free-spirited mother Rosemary in Cape Sanctuary while fourteen year old Cami had gone to live in LA with their attorney father. As the three siblings grew older, the relationship grew even more strained – until Rosemary calls Cami with the dreadful news that Lily drowned while saving a child’s life and now needs her to come back to Cape Sanctuary to help untangle her sister’s complicated estate.

Returning back is anything but easy. Cami hasn’t been to Cape Sanctuary for decades and adjusting to life back in this small town and the people she left behind takes some getting used to – not to mention the fact that her family is heartbroken and grieving. As Cami finds herself stepping up for her mother and her sister, who is figuring out who she is after the loss of her twin, Cami also finds herself needing support as she butts head with the neighbor standing in the way of her late sister’s dream while also dealing with a face from her past she had hoped never to see again: the man she had once loved.

Will this summer finally bring Cami close to her family? Will she find the happiness and fulfillment she needs? And will coming home give her everything she has always wanted, which she had long given up on?

RaeAnne Thayne never fails to write stories that touch the heart and speak to the soul. Summer at the Cape is a beautifully written and sensitively told tale that explores grief, belonging, love and loss that cannot fail to bring a tear to the eye. A warm-hearted, witty and dramatic tale about second chances, fresh starts and healing from old wounds, Summer at the Cape is full of characters that are so vividly drawn and brilliantly nuanced that they will feel like close friends by the end of the last chapter.

As brilliant, life-affirming and enthralling as ever, Summer at the Cape is another surefire bestseller by the fabulous RaeAnne Thayne.