Audio Book Description:
At the age of twenty nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Tryingto regain her footing after this tragic double blow, sheanswers the ad of a couple seeking a tutor for their teenagedaughter and ends up spending the summer at the cottageof the Edwards family on thestunning New Hampshire coast. No sooner does Sydney settle intothe household routine--actingas something between a servant and a family member--than theEdwardses` two grown sons, Ben and Jeff,show up for a weekend. Ben is a real estate executive, Jeff is a professor. Both are handsome, both areaccomplished, both are competitive. And both seem completely enraptured by Sydney. As the weeks pass in this seasideidyll, Sydney enters a strangelove triangle, infused with old rivalries and bitter secrets she can only guess at. And she begins to fear that the brothers` competition forher affections could tear aparttheir family--and the fragileexistence she has painstakingly rebuilt.
