Amy Mason Doan
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesAmy Mason Doan's second novel, Summer Hours, is set in the mid '90s and 2008 and revolves around a secret affair, the summer it all unravels, and the reunion a decade later that will be one woman's happy ending or her biggest mistake. Becc was the good girl: a dedicated student, an aspiring reporter, always where she was supposed to be. That is, until a secret affair with the charming Cal one summer in college cost her everything she held dear: her journalism dreams; her relationship with her best friend, Eric; and her carefully imagined future. Summer Hours is a warmly told novel about the idealism of youth, the seductive power of nostalgia and what happens when you realize you haven't become the person you'd…