A Summer Affair is the story of Claire Crispin, a wife and mother of four, who embarks on a year-long affair with Lock Dixon, the millionaire head of the local children’s charity. Claire is vaguely acquainted with Lock – she was friendly with his wife Daphne before a devastating car accident changed Daphne’s personality – when he asks her to not only co-chair the Nantucket Children’s Summer Gala, but to provide the auction item, a blown glass chandelier. Claire hasn’t been in her glass studio in over year, since a fall caused her to go in to premature labor with her youngest son, and she surprises everyone, including herself, by agreeing.
I’ve read other books from Hilderbrand, and this was definitely not my favorite.