This book has everything I’ve come to expect from Thayne and does not disappoint! This is a cozy read with just the right balance of family drama and romance. The imagery that Thayne creates is gorgeous and it makes me want to visit this small town. If you need a light read and some good distraction from the real world, I highly recommend this book!

Ms. Thayne certainly has a winner with The Sea Glass Cottage. She has delved into many different types of relationships in this book. She explores mother/daughter, big sister's best friend, man/woman best friend, women's best friend, extended family and man/woman (just to name a few-ha!). She has somehow taken what appears above to be a royal mess and blended them all into a message of love and forgiveness that certainly resonated with me.
The book was full of secrets--some intentional, some not. The plot flowed well and kept me engrossed in the story. I loved every page of it!
I was given a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own.

Three Generations of Women Must Face Their Mutual Dependence

Olivia is struggling with her life in Seattle. She thought it was what she wanted when she left Cape Sanctuary, but now her job is just work, and her relationship with her boyfriend is unsatisfactory. She’s also having panic attacks in public places because she witnessed a crazed customer attack a barista in the coffee shop she frequents.

When a call comes from her best friend that her mother, Julia, has had a bad fall from a ladder, Olivia knows that she must go home even though she and her mother have been estranged for years. Olivia’s father was killed in a fire and ever since her mother has been running a garden center by herself and bringing up her granddaughter, Caitlin.

Caitlin feels resentment that Olivia has been away for such a long time and worries that it will disrupt her relationship with Julia. Caitlin is illegitimate, the daughter of Olivia’s sister, Natalie, who died of a drug overdose, and an unknown father. Using a DNA test registry, Caitlin is trying to find her father.

The complex personal relationships make this an interesting book. However, the women have been hiding from each other for so long you want to shake them. The story is told from multiple perspectives so we get to know each of the main characters. I found the contrasting viewpoints helpful in understanding their relationships.

This is a slow moving romantic story. I thought the men, Vance Cooper Olivia’s old crush, and Henry, who lives next door to Julia, were one of the best features of the story. They were strong men, but caring. If you enjoy romance in a beautiful setting, you’ll like this story.

I received this book from Harlequin for this review.

Olivia Harper is a witness to a crime and is having a difficult time moving forward from this horrific event. When Olivia's mother falls off of a ladder and requires her help, Olivia must overcome her fears and return to her hometown. Revisiting a place she couldn't wait to leave, Olivia is reminded of the friends, love, betrayal, and heartbreak left behind. Running her mother's plant business, Harper Hill Home & Garden, gives Olivia a new appreciation of the hard work and time required to keep a small business afloat. It doesn't help that her mother is the guardian of teenage Caitlin who seems to be belligerent and rude to everyone especially Olivia. Everyone has something to hide and secrets to be kept including handsome Cooper Vance, her sister's best friend and the brother of Melody, Olivia's best friend.

An easy to read book of friendship, love, and secrets. The story of each character and their connectiveness unfolds logically and it is easy to get lost in the story. I am reading this ARC while under a voluntary isolation (due to coronavirus) and it is the perfect story to escape from local and world news. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and story line. Cape Sanctuary seems like the perfect place to visit and live, it's the town where everyone helps and looks out for each other. The perfect book for summer and beach reading.

I'm a sucker for cozy and generational stories. Reading: <u>The Sea Glass Cottage</u> felt like reading one of my other fave authors. Debbie Macomb, whose stories give you all the feels The Sea Glass Cottage has.
Olivia Harper is a entrepreneur that lives and makes a living in Seattle. She's been trying to keep it together, especially because she's dealing with PTSD. A while ago she was in a coffeehouse and a barista got brutally attacked. It weighs so heavily in her mind because she froze when everything happened and she wasn't able to help the barista. She receives a call that adds on to her already stressed out life.
Her mother, whom she already has a rocky relationship with has fallen off a ladder and broken a few bones. She immediately drops everything and heads to her mother. In the back of her mind she's hoping she can rekindle their relationship as mother and daughter. Three generations of women with baggage, secrets, teenage angst, men issues, and everything else you can imagine under the sun. Will they be able to leave the past behind them and turn over new leafs? Will they become a happy family?

I really enjoyed this book and I related a lot to Olivia. Even though she's been treated like crap by her family, she still manages to be there for them...or maybe we're just pushovers?
Thank you to NetGalley, Mills & Boon, ,and HarperCollins for a copy of this awesome book in a exchange for a honest review!

Olivia might have been estranged from her mother Juliet, but when Juliet is hurt, Olivia packs up and goes to tend for her. With Olivia's life already being a bit off-balance, the timing certainly isn't good. Now, not only does Olivia wish for Juliet to make a full recovery, it is really hoped that the two can overcome their difficult past.

The Sea Glass Cottage quickly turns into quite a sensitive story, especially when Olivia is dealing with her niece Caitlin, who lost her mother to drugs and is now being raised by her grandmother. Is Olivia up to the task to draw closer to her family, even if it means her stay in the picturesque village of Cape Sanctuary might have to be extended?

This was a very well-written book that really drew me in. The family dynamics were complicated but showed a lot of promise. Although there is quite a bit of family drama, Olivia has a chance at love when it comes in the form of the local fire chief, Cooper Vance. Olivia's relationship with Cooper was a very nice layer to a wonderful book. Although this may be my first read by RaeAnne Thayne it certainly won't be my last.

Many thanks to HQN Books and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

I received a copy of this book from RaeAnne Thayne and HQN. This is my honest and voluntary review. Thayne's books may make you cry, laugh, sigh, or explode with anger but in the end they will leave you with a huge smile on your face. Why do we think that an age difference in a man and woman make a relationship impossible? If the man is older it's ok but if the woman is the older one - oh my god!, she's robbing the cradle. Love comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ages, nationalities, and sexes. Who are we to decide what is right or what is wrong? This book is outstandingly enjoyable. I very highly recommend to all readers. Enjoy! 📚

Olivia, had an hard life with work that isn't really filling her needs. Her mother Juliet has an accident at her business a nursery at the busiest time of the year. Caitlyn, lives with Juliet after her mother died of drug addiction. These three women haven't been together for a long time and all have very different life's that must be melted together to help her mother recover. Can they accomplish this? You need to read this fascinating story by the amazing RaeAnne Thayne.

I normally enjoy books by this author, but I was on the fence about this one. Olivia returns home to take care of her injured mother and help out at the nursery she owns. Not only does her mother not seem to appreciate it, she seems to want to push her away. Then there’s Caitlin, her niece, who is nothing but hostile to her. All while dealing with these two, she finds herself starting a relationship with Cooper, her deceased sister’s best friend.

Every one of these people are harboring secrets. I felt like if they were all just honest, so much of the drama and the hostility could have been avoided. As it was, I found it difficult to really like most of the characters, especially Olivia’s mother and her niece, which made it hard to get into the story.

**I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy provided through Netgalley**

The sea Glass Cottage, By Rayanne Thayne
Another wonderful story by one of the authors I love.
Olivia is At home one day going
To her favorite Coffee shop, when a robbery
Is taken place..after the robbery Olivia finds going
To coffee shops a bit hard... to go many places.
Then she gets a call Her Mother has had a
Accident and she has to travel 600 miles to Northern California coast
She offers run her mother's flower shop while she recovers.
Her 15 year old niece is also living with her mother..
Her mother has raised her niece since she was a baby her sister overdosed.
While being back home in California helping her mother her niece Caitlin. Has
issues with Olivia..
Caitlin is in search of her bio, dad but doesn't want to
Say anything. To anyone except her best friend..
This Book was Truly a wonderful Read. I would Recommend it others..


Thank you Rayanne Thayne
And harlequin...for this arc.All Thoughts in this review aremy own.

The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne is a wonderful read that reminds you of the importance of love. The novel takes place in Cape Sanctuary with the main characters consisting of a grandmother, granddaughter and a daughter. The grandmother, Juliet is raising her granddaughter, Caitlin after her mother’s death. Olivia is the other daughter who has been away is called suddenly to come home after her mother has an accident.

The story revolves around the three main characters. Each has secrets from the other. Each has something that makes them uncomfortable around the others. It is a perfect recipe for a story that allows the characters to grow and change. Oh - and the secrets to be revealed. Because (let’s face it) they always are. Added to the three women are various other characters, including some romantic interests.

What makes this story work are the characters and the story line that revolves around them. Each woman is strong in their own right, but could be stronger if they could open up and share with their family. Something that is going to take a series of incidents. The community and the support of others is a key element of the story as well. The story was one of those that brought you a multitude of emotions including sorrow and joy. Each of the characters at some point needs a good kick (not that you can). The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne was a wonderful read.

RaeAnne Thayne hit it out of the ballpark with The Sea Glass Cottage. What a wonderful story of a family finding their way back to each other after so much grief. The characters and setting come to life through the author's words. I couldn't put it down and recommend any fan of the author read this story!

I received a free ARC eBook from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for my honest opinions.

The Sea Glass Cottage
A Novel
by RaeAnne Thayne

@raeannethayne

This book was received from the Author, and Publisher, in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.


The Sea Glass Cottage is a complex, memorable story about family, and secrets. Where healing and forgiveness is depicted in a thought provoking storyline.

Olivia Harper is returning Cape Sanctuary after her mother falls from a ladder and sustaining serious injuries. Juliet Harper is an incredible independent woman, but her fall combined with surgery will ultimately have her out of commission for a couple of months. The family business and care of her fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Caitlin will fall on her returning daughter a Olivia. Juliet is hoping to repair past hurt and a deep void between herself and her Olivia during her recovery period.

A emotional journey of healing and strength ones a wonderfully engaging storyline that captures heartwarming struggles of three woman. A charming tale that unfolds within these creative pages. Well developed characters, the reader is captivated by alternating point-of-views between Juliet, Olivia, Caitlin and Cooper Vance.

A charming contemporary book, full of emotional drama of three generations of women, who struggle with their pasts and family relationships.

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The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne has Olivia Harper returning Cape Sanctuary after her mother falls from a ladder and sustaining serious injuries. Juliet Harper likes to be independent, but her surgery will have her out of commission for a couple of months. Plus, Juliet will need assistance raising her fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Caitlin and running the family business, Harper Hill Home & Garden. Juliet is hoping to repair the deep void between herself and Olivia during this time. The three Harper ladies are each keeping secrets from each other. This could be the chance for them to mend rifts, tell truths and become closer as a family. The Sea Glass Cottage involves three generations of Harper ladies: Juliet, Olivia and Caitlin. I thought the story was well-written with developed characters. The book had a good flow which I appreciated. The story alternates point-of-view between Juliet, Olivia, Caitlin and Cooper Vance. I thought The Sea Glass Cottage was a multifaceted novel. The various storylines all work together for one compelling story. Olivia has many fears that keep her from achieving her dreams or having a fulfilling relationship. Juliet is hiding a secret from her family and her best friend, Henry Cragun. Caitlin’s mother died when she was a child. She never told anyone the identity of her father. Caitlin comes up with a plan to find out the identity of her biological father. There is much more which I want you to discover for yourself. I loved the beautiful descriptions of the Sea Glass Cottage and the sea. There are secrets revealed throughout the book which I liked. I was very happy there was an epilogue which nicely wrapped up the book. The Sea Glass Cottage is a complex, moving story about family, secrets, healing, forgiveness, friendship, honesty and love.

The Sea Glass Cottage is a wonderful story that weaves a tale about a family, and its extended family, that crosses and turns and then backs up and comes around again – in a good way! I can’t begin to tell you the story, without giving spoilers and over simplifying, but I can tell you what I liked about it.

Olivia (Liv) leaves Seattle to come home to help take care of her mother after an accident. Her niece Caitlin is there, living with her Mom as Liv’s sister (Natalie) has been dead a long time and Caitlin has been part of their immediate family for many years.

Really, this story is about all three of these characters finding their family unit again – at least to me. They have some bumps and some big hurdles to overcome and the author tells a great story all about that journey. Along the way, friends of the family step in and up to make even deeper connections to these three and some of those roads you never see coming.

My heart broke for Liv as she is dealing with much in her (Seattle) life. Juliet, her mother, was dealing with a lot of baggage herself but as only a daughter could say, she left a LOT unsaid and it affected her relationship to her daughter and granddaughter. And Caitlin; oh boy. She was a very **headstrong* teenager but hey! Weren’t we all at her age?

I guess the big thing for me in this book was that it was about these three women of different generations, finding their way to happiness. There were great guys (I’ll just mention Cooper here!) but they weren’t the main focus of the story. I liked that. Great read. Very heartwarming. And it may make you think of your own family relationships.

Let me start by stating that I generally love RaeAnne Thayne's novels, especially her Haven Point series, and I wish I could the same about The Sea Glass Cottage, but, for a number of reasons, I simply cannot, and the best I can do is give it a 2-star rating.

I can usually read a novel of this length is one or two nights, but it took me a week to get through this one because I found that page after page after page, nothing of any significance happened. Olivia, the heroine, and I use that term loosely, was present during a coffee shop hold-up, hid under a table and dialed 911. She thinks that makes her a coward, which I found utterly ridiculous. What was she supposed to do? Attack a meth-crazed, armed lunatic with her coffee stirrer? Now, she's avoiding all coffee shops, and turning herself into an agoraphobic--having panic attacks at the thought of being in public. As someone who has had panic attacks since the age of 5, why she chose not to seek out a professional mental health specialist made no sense to me at all. Yet, when she learns that her mother, with whom she's had a troubled relationship, has fallen off a ladder, breaking her hip and several ribs, she takes a 12-hour drive back home in the middle of the night.

Once she arrives back home in Cape Sanctuary, her mother is less than thrilled to see her, and her niece, Caitlin, daughter of Olivia's late sister, Natalie, is openly hostile toward her. Caitlin's mother, Natalie, died of a drug overdose and Caitlin was raised by Olivia's mother, Julia. Julia doesn't seem thrilled to see Olivia either. Olivia is there to work at and run the family garden center while her mother recovers from her injuries, although she knows next to nothing about the business, and all of this plus her fear of public spaces, taking leave from her regular job, as well as trying to run her own social media business on the side is more than a bit much.

To add even more to the complications and drama in this novel, 15-year-old Caitlin is trying to find out who her father is using a DNA ancestry service. Juliet is falling in love with her widowed neighbor, Henry, who is 8 years her junior, but never expresses her feelings. Olivia is attracted to Cooper, who was her late sister's best friend, and who lost his wife to cancer years earlier, and yet not one of these characters ever really communicates with anyone else--the story, told in alternating narration, was little more than these characters dwelling on their own issues without simply being honest about what they are feeling and why. All of these characters had secrets they were keeping that they simply hid rather than dealing with them. I could understand Caitlin's need to know who fathered her, but her hostility toward her aunt, Olivia, was never really explored.

It's hard to like a novel when you dislike most of the main characters, and when you think their behavior is utterly ridiculous, as was the case in this novel. I did like the only two characters who were open and honest, Cooper and Henry, but I found everyone else's self-doubt, incessant worrying, and inability to communicate irritating and frustrating. and this novel just dragged on, and on, and on, with no relief in sight until the very abbreviated HEA ending. In fact, had I not requested an advance reader copy of this novel, and felt obligated to finish it, I'd have stopped reading it by the time I was halfway through it.

There are some glowing reviews of this novel posted here on Goodreads, and I'm sorry that I couldn't add one more glowing review to them, but, for the reasons I've already stated, this novel didn't work for me on any level, and I simply cannot recommend it.

The Sea Glass Cottage is an emotional and heartwarming tale of love, strength, and finding your path. RaeAnne Thayne is a master at pulling a reader's emotions and The Sea Glass Cottage is going on my keeper shelf.

When Juliet falls off a ladder at the family garden center and breaks her hip, it leads to a break in long standing family secrets. Her daughter Olivia, who has been living in Seattle, comes home to care for her- the timing is perfect because things aren't going well in Olivia's life. Caitlin, her 15 year old niece, is hoping to identify her father; her mom, Olivia's sister Natalie, OD'd, leaving her in Juliet's care. No spoilers for what each woman finds but know that Juliet has another secret, that Olivia will reconnect with her BFF and find new love, and that Caitlin will get past at least some of her teenage behavior. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. It's a lovely novel and one which makes for a satisfying read for fans of the family saga.

Emotional page-turner. Multi-generational family with more than the usual number of secrets. It is a delight to get to know all of the people in the story. Some obvious secrets and some surprising are revealed. This all eventually leads to the happily ever after for many involved.

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The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne is and emotionally charged book. Set in a small town, we have to wonder if you can ever really go back home again. As always Thayne does a wonderful job pulling us into the storyline, the book was well written and action packed. I truly didn't enjoy Catlin very much, but that is ok we don't have to enjoy every character in a story. I would recommend this book to others, especially those that enjoy a small town romance, full of heartache, angst, redemption and love.

I received an Advanced Readers Copy of the book from NetGalley and the publisher and this is my fair and honest review.