Cruel Summer

Keri Ann McLaughlin

A small Cape Cod town. A series of mysterious deaths. A group of friends trying to outrun the past, and the monsters that are closing in on them. On the Cape, nothing is at it seems, and everyone has secrets they want to stay buried deep in the sand.

Cruel Summer, McLaughlin’s debut novel, will shock readers with unexpected twists and turns, and grab ahold of their hearts with characters they will never forget.

Keri Ann McLaughlin earned a Masters Degree in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston. A native Cape Codder who hates the beach, she writes fiction and non fiction based in part on her own experiences of growing up on Cape Cod, surrounded by a military base and a nuclear power plant.