Dark Harbor House

Bring together a wonderfully vaired mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer "cottage," leave them to their own devices over the course of a long idyllic summer in the late 1940s, and you have all the ingredients for a fine comedy of manners. Author Tom DeMarco starts with a simple love story, weaves in tantalizing details of the old mansion's not totally respectable history, and adds a hint of gentle satire to create a novel that is touching, memorable, and deliciously entertaining.