Her own daughter...one of the popular girls?
On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. Lydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel. But Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.
Then a new student ruthlessly targets Erin to boost her own popularity, and Lydia helplessly wonders what to do when her daughter's...

Darcy Van Aiken is doing fine, thank you. She's an ICU nurse with an "amicable" divorce from her husband Mike, two great kids, a cute little house of her own, and a prescription for Ritalin. When her older son Jeremy gets engaged, Darcy has to figure out if Rose, the bride's mother, is going to be her new best friend or the mother-in-law who insists that all future holidays be celebrated in her home.

Meanwhile Claudia, Darcy's ex-husband's new girlfriend, beautifully dressed with perfect taste, can't help thinking she would make a much better mother-of-the-groom than Darcy....

"A genuinely appealing and absorbing read."
--Publishers Weekly

"Her talent is a gift to us all."
--New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A classic summer favorite, Summer's End by Kathleen Gilles Seidel is a story of family bonds and entanglements, brimming with drama, love, fun, and sun. This is women's fiction at its most compelling and entertaining--a tale of clashing personalities and irresistible attractions, as two families joined by marriage gather at a retreat in Minnesota. Seidel's Summer's End is a...