The Beach ClubElin Hilderbrand Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors... Mack Petersen escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can't stay hidden... Love O'Donnel, a glamourous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her daring plan...to find a man to make her pregnant... Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most... Cecily Elliot, the owner's daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents' hearts. Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about the desperate desire...and about the storm coming that will change everything at...The Beach Club.