Summersea

What a magical book. Once I started, I couldn't stop. When Bianca Wilder decides to prolong a summer job at a resort hotel on the New Jersey shore, she never imagines the world she will find, perfectly tailored to her tastes. The huge, decaying old Victorian that overlooks a superhighway, but stands its ground, and speaks of more than seventy years of golden summer memories.....when all thirty bedrooms were filled, tea was served in the solarium, croquet was played on the sprawling lawn, and the beautifully carved mahogany ballroom doors opened....to the last ball of the season. Now that many guests are dead and gone, the 80 year old owners, Sarah and Andrew support their floundering hotel on social security checks and the kindness of certain purveyors of antiques in town.

Bianca is a film student, who feels like a fish out of water in her own "time". She hates plastic, condominiums, smog, fast food, and womens' libbers. She feels pulled back into Summersea's "time"....and soon, her fantasies of how good it used to be turn into a reality that she can enter, *almost* whenever she wants. In the past, she finds true love, and far more interesting people. But what happens when summer is over? Read and find out!