Her former desk in the fourth-floor newsroom at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, her home away from home for the past four years. You’ll look like an ingrate if you try to duck out.”īefore she could argue, he’d deftly taken the cardboard box she’d just finished packing and placed it on her desktop. “You can’t skip your own going-away party,” he’d said. She’d almost succeeded in making a clean break, only feet away from the elevator, when Butch caught her trying to sneak out. I’ve said goodbye to the people I care about. At least a third of the people in that room don’t even like me. “Stale sheet cake, lukewarm champagne, and tepid farewells. “I hate these things,” Conley Hawkins said, gazing toward the newsroom’s glass-encased conference room, where the rest of the staff was gathering. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman―a beloved war hero with a shady past. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, “Hello, Summer.” When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat―and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley.
Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer.Ĭonley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago.
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