My stop on the blog tour: Songs of Summer by Jane L. Rosen

General fiction-romance-women’s fiction

336 pages

Pub date: 20 May 2025

About the book:

A young woman crashes the wedding of the summer on Fire Island in search of her birth mother—and gets a whole lot more than she bargained for—in this warm, heart-stopping getaway from Jane L. Rosen

Maggie Mae Wheeler is content with her life. At 30, she has grand plans for her vintage record shop in the charming Midwestern town where she grew up, and is soon to be engaged to her childhood best friend.

But when she discovers a letter she wrote to herself at thirteen, being content doesn’t feel like enough anymore—Maggie needs answers to figure out who she is and where she belongs. Since losing her parents, the only family she has ever known, Maggie decides that finding her birth mother is the best place to start.

Her search leads her to Fire Island, an idyllic summer getaway where her birth mother is attending a wedding. As Maggie observes her biological family from a distance, she sees that they come with a lot of… drama. Torn between diving deeper into their world or returning to her peaceful life and cozy relationship, her decision gets more complicated when a handsome local offers to take her to the wedding — if she will pose as his date.

Is it the magic of the island, the rush of the music, the fun of jumping into the weekend’s events with her fake beau? Suddenly, playing the part of his girlfriend starts to feel way too real, and the words to every love song seem to be about them.

The author:

JANE L. ROSEN is an author and Huffington Post contributor. She lives in New York City and Fire Island with her husband and three daughters. She often takes inspiration from the city she lives in and the people she shares it with. In addition to her writing she has spent time in film, television and event production and is the cofounder of It’s All Gravy LLC, a web and app-based gifting company.

My thoughts:

I very much look forward to finishing this book which I recently started. As I worked in adoption, I am most interested in seeing how the author deals with what can be a very delicate subject and one that raises many issues for the person who was adopted, the birth family, and the adoptive family. It does offer a resonant subject for a novel.

I also am looking forward to the summer vibe of this title. I eagerly anticipate my virtual visit to beautiful Fire Island.

Music and Judaism also have places in this story. I am eager to see how these are integrated into the plot.

Many thanks to Berkley Publishing and NetGalley for this title. All opinions are my own.

Note: This book is part of a trilogy. The other titles are On Fire Island, and Seven Summer Weekends.