The Ocean

Samantha and Jack are only teenagers when they first meet at a North Carolina beach party. Jack is a handsome eighteen-year-old with blond hair, big blue eyes, and broad shoulders. Sam is a petite beauty on the verge of her sixteenth birthday. They fall in love and spend the summer in a whirlwind romance.

As she leaves to return to Upstate New York, they promise to stay in touch. But Sam goes silent. She's pregnant and doesn't want to ruin Jack's future plans.

Flash-forward thirty years. Sam lives a fulfilling life as a stay-at-home mother and now has three adult kids. After the tragic death of her husband, Victor, she moves back to the North Carolina beach to start a new life-and has a chance meeting with her first love, Jack.

They reunite but just as their old passion begins to rekindle, constant obstacles keep them apart. Maybe this wasn't meant to be after all. Then all hell breaks loose when a ghost from Sam's past suddenly appears-now only the truth can set them all free.

For fans of Gemma Halliday and Marie Force, The Ocean is an easy-to-read contemporary romance about old flames and new beginnings.

Shelley Hibbard is from Baldwinsville, New York, and worked in the medical field for ten years before becoming a stay-at-home mom.

She has two grown sons and currently lives in Upstate New York with her husband. Her hobbies include camping and traveling.