THE INVISIBLE HUSBAND OF FRICK ISLAND by Colleen Oakley (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; May 25, 2021)
Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you.
Piper
Parrish's life on Frick Island--a tiny, remote town smack in the middle
of the Chesapeake Bay--is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky
detail: Her beloved husband, Tom, is
dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered,
Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if
her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her,
cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each
morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the
One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with
their beloved widowed Piper?
Anders Caldwell's career is not going well. A young ambitious
journalist, he'd rather hoped he'd be a national award-winning podcaster
by now, rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper.
But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote
Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser, he
stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to
see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined
it's the career-making story he's been needing
for his podcast, Anders returns to the island to begin covert research
and spend more time with the enigmatic Piper--but he has no idea out of
all the lives he's about to upend, it's his that will change the most.
USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley delivers an
unforgettable love story about an eccentric community, a grieving widow,
and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more
important than the facts.
About the Author
Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch and Before I Go. Her books have been named best books by People, Us Weekly, Library Journal and Real Simple, and have been long-listed for the Southern Book Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, four kids and the world's biggest lapdog.
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