The Last Season

Palm Beach, fall 1955. The shutters are coming down along the ocean, and the Season is about to return to the island. On the night of her twenty-ninth birthday, caretaker Nora Calloway rides out to the Coral Cut and finds a green marble on the ledge behind the small barred window. It is still warm, and Nora knows a child left it there.

Somewhere beneath the island's grand houses, a little girl is waiting in the dark. To find her, Nora goes to work inside the very houses she is searching, taking coats and carrying trays for the families she is hunting through the brightest Season Palm Beach has seen in years. Somewhere among those smiling faces, a quiet old man decides who lives and who disappears.

The man who raised her no longer knows her most days, yet some nights he speaks of things he heard on the ocean road long ago. Nora has her mother, the brother she found below the island and the friends who have stood beside her from the start. Together they follow a trail of marbles, an old family ledger and the hum of the pump beneath her cottage floor.

Then a November storm brings the king tides, and the House means to let the ocean take everything below.

The Last Season is the fifth and final novel in the Bones in the Coral series. It is a story of courage, family and the light that finally reaches the places Palm Beach tried to forget.