Osprey Island

As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island#8217;s one and only hotel #8212; are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there#8217;s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge#8217;s owners, who#8217;s looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering#8211;sometimes fleeting#8211;joy Returning to her island home community, Suzy Chizek explores her lingering feelings for Vietnam veteran Roddy Jacobs, a time that is marked by a tragic fire and the rescue of a young boy from his alcoholic father