The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

ΓÇ£This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!ΓÇ¥ΓÇöEmily Giffin,#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That Bind As Seen on the TODAY SHOW A Southern Living Best Beach Read * A PopSugar Best Book of May * An Us Weekly Summer Beach Staple * A Frolic Under-the-Radar Book of May * An OK Magazine Best Summer Beach Read * An EW.com Best Book of Spring * A Country Living Can’t Miss Beach Read * A LibraryReads Pick for May * An Emily Giffin Book Club pick Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish’s life on Frick IslandΓÇöa tinyremote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake BayΓÇöis nearly perfect. Wellaside from one pesky detail: Her darling husbandTomis dead. When Tom’s crab boat capsized and his body wasn’t recoveredPiperrocked to the coredid a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alivebut right there beside hercooking him breakfastwalking him to the docks each morningmeeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders CaldwellΓÇÖs career is not going well. A young ambitious journalistheΓÇÖd rather hoped heΓÇÖd be a national award-winning podcaster by nowrather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiserhe stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined itΓÇÖs the career-making story heΓÇÖs been needing for his podcastAnders returns to the island to begin covert research and spend more time with the enigmatic PiperΓÇöbut he has no idea out of all the lives heΓÇÖs about to upenditΓÇÖs his that will change the most. USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley delivers an unforgettable love story about an eccentric communitya grieving widowand an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts.