Summer at Sandcastle Cottage

- Blurb -

It's a glorious summer in Firefly Common, the old-fashioned seaside village where Kitty Appleby (almost forty, recently-single, a bit of a Julia Roberts look-alike) and her friends Apollo and Jemini, rent the delightful Sandcastle Cottage.But life is far from being all sunshine and lollipops for Kitty (currently working as a waitress in The Silver Fish Bar with a lot more than chips on her mind); Apollo (will he ever be able to convince Firefly Common that what it really needs is a kebab take-away?); and Jemini (having found a nursery place for her daughter, Teddy, now working part time in the estate agents with her boyband clone much younger squeeze, Connor, and teaching Pole Dancing For The Over Fifties in the village hall). The only two residents of Sandcastle Cottage without a care are Honey and Zorro, the rescue Staffies.Because, as Kitty's elderly neighbours, the kindly-but-overbearing Mr H and his "she loves a tipple" wife Angelica, keep reminding her, very soon, Mavis Mulholland - the owner of Sandcastle Cottage - will return from her lottery-winning round-the-world-cruise, and want her home back...As Kitty, Apollo and Jemini have all been homeless once, it's not something they want to face again. Especially when it means leaving the adorable Sandcastle Cottage - and probably Firefly Common - for ever.And Kitty has another, very pressing reason for wanting to stay: the enigmatic, mysterious Vinny, who walks along the beach, alone. Because Kitty, recognising another lonely soul, knows there's far more to "Vinny the Vagrant" than meets the eye.As the scorchingly gorgeous Firefly Common summer unfurls, as Zorro and Honey waggle and wobble and Staffie-smile their way into everyone's hearts, as Apollo and Jemini try to make their dreams come true, as Kitty tries hard not to fall spectacularly stupidly in love, and as Mavis Mulholland's cruise ship nears port - who will end up living happily ever after? And where...?