06/04/2026
🌅 Meet Author Soon Wiley at Montgomery and Taggert Bookshop in Chester, CT on Saturday, 6/27! Drop-in at this free event between 1 pm - 3 pm to get your copy of "Cece Downing's Start Over Summer" and have it signed.
📚 Preorder recommended: https://www.montgomeryandtaggert.com/preorders
🦪 Chester's own Tucker Oyster Company will also be on-site with fresh shucked oysters and bags of to-go oysters available for purchase.
🏡 Montgomery and Taggert Bookshop, Connecticut’s first romance-themed bookstore, is located at 26 Water Street in Chester Village.
📖 About the book:
"Cece Downing's Start Over Summer is a perfect beach read¸—fun, thoughtful, romantic!"—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of "Hello Beautiful" and "Dear Edward"
"A witty, heartfelt novel about a young woman who leaves everything behind to work on an oyster farm in a small New England town.
Recently fired from her dependable career as an actuary, and recovering from a messy breakup with her fiancé, thirty-two-year-old Cece Downing is holed up for the summer in New London, Connecticut, without a plan. Mounting financial debts soon force Cece to take the first job opportunity that comes her way--one she's wholly unsuited for--as a deckhand on an oyster boat.
Surprisingly, Cece finds herself loving the job: working with her hands, breathing the fresh sea air, and learning the ins and outs of oyster farming. And despite her overbearing mother's pleas to get a "real" job and reunite with her wealthy fiancé, Cece plunges headlong into an ill-advised romance with her neighbor, a handsome shipyard worker named Morgan.
When a proposal to expand the oyster farm throws the community into an uproar, pitting wealthy waterfront owners against blue collar workers, Cece finds herself caught in the middle. And as a family crisis forces her to reevaluate her reckless choices Cece must come to terms with what she's willing to sacrifice for the life she wants to live."—Penguin Random House
