Maggie Blackburn

Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper's pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the dean, and save...

There's no place like home for the holidays - even if home is sleepy beachside Brigid's Island, North Carolina. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers - and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to...

When Beach Reads bookshop hosts a Valentines Day event, Romance by the Sea, bookseller Summer Merriweather has no idea that the guest author is under investigation for her own husbands murder. When that same author is found dead at the local bed and breakfast, nobody assumes its natural...