28 Summers - Elin Hilderbrand

Their secret love affair has lasted for years - but this will be the summer that changes everything. When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives her deathbed instructions to call a number on a slip of paper in a desk drawer, he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020, and Jake's wife, Ursula de Gournsey, is the front-runner in the upcoming presidential election.   Link is sure there's been a mistake. How do Mallory and Jake know each other?   Flash back to the sweet summer of 1993: Mallory has just inherited a beachfront cottage on Nantucket from her aunt, and she agrees to host her brother Cooper's college bachelor party. Cooper's college friend Jake McCloud attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that will persevere--through marriage, children, and Ursula's stratospheric political rise--until Mallory learns she's dying.   Inspired by the film Same Time, Next Year (which Mallory and Jake watch every summer), 28 Summers is the unforgettable stor