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Wash Ashore: A Tale of Cape Cod
Gold Winner National Indie Excellence Book Awards
Award Winning Summer Beach Read 2022 from Sea Crow Press
An unforgettable summer on Cape Cod.
When a surprise inheritance brings Olive Adams to Cape Cod to live in her aunt's old house, she finds her fortune shifting like the sands. Can she navigate a new life in the welcoming but mysterious house? As a dangerous hurricane barrels up the coast, Olive struggles to save the land next door from destruction as she waits for her new love to return.
Award Winning Summer Beach Read 2022 from Sea Crow Press
An unforgettable summer on Cape Cod.
When a surprise inheritance brings Olive Adams to Cape Cod to live in her aunt's old house, she finds her fortune shifting like the sands. Can she navigate a new life in the welcoming but mysterious house? As a dangerous hurricane barrels up the coast, Olive struggles to save the land next door from destruction as she waits for her new love to return.
186 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2022
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About the author
Mary Petiet
6 books6 followersMary writes with a passion for connecting and empowering women to live from their highest selves.
She is an author, poet, and freelance writer. She is the author of Minerva’s Owls, Owl Magic: Your Guide Through Challenging Times, and Moon Tide: Cape Cod Poems. In 2020 she founded Sea Crow Press, a small independent imprint curating creative nonfiction and poetry to give her titles a home.
Mary is a contributor to the anthologies Jesus, Muhammad, and the Goddess, She Rises, vol.2, and Awaken the Feminine!: Dismantling Domination to Restore Balance on Mother Earth. Her work has appeared in Feminism and Religion, Sage Woman, The Wayfarer, and she is a contributor to Mother House of the Goddess.
Mary is a graduate of the University of St Andrews.
Join Mary on Facebook or online at www.marypetiet.com and be the first to hear about her new books. She loves to hear from readers at marypetiet@gmail.com and is available for work with book groups and online readings. If you love her books, please be sure to tell your friends and leave a review on Amazon and Good Reads.
She is an author, poet, and freelance writer. She is the author of Minerva’s Owls, Owl Magic: Your Guide Through Challenging Times, and Moon Tide: Cape Cod Poems. In 2020 she founded Sea Crow Press, a small independent imprint curating creative nonfiction and poetry to give her titles a home.
Mary is a contributor to the anthologies Jesus, Muhammad, and the Goddess, She Rises, vol.2, and Awaken the Feminine!: Dismantling Domination to Restore Balance on Mother Earth. Her work has appeared in Feminism and Religion, Sage Woman, The Wayfarer, and she is a contributor to Mother House of the Goddess.
Mary is a graduate of the University of St Andrews.
Join Mary on Facebook or online at www.marypetiet.com and be the first to hear about her new books. She loves to hear from readers at marypetiet@gmail.com and is available for work with book groups and online readings. If you love her books, please be sure to tell your friends and leave a review on Amazon and Good Reads.
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August 11, 2023
Olive remembered, fondly, childhood summers spent on Cape Cod with her aunt. The sense of community, the palpable history, and the slower way of life seemed like another world from what she was used to in Boston. With her aunt’s passing, Olive now found herself in possession of that same house she used to visit, and quickly realized a permanent life there was more than possible- it seemed almost inevitable. In the midst of making new friends, introducing old friends to the Cape, and delving into a centuries old family mystery, Olive realizes that there are many pieces that connect to make a place feel like home.
Wash Ashore: A Tale of Cape Cod is a novel by Mary Petiet that follows Olive as she inherits her aunt’s family home and becomes immersed in all the history and traditions of the sleepy little village. Bringing along a couple of friends from Boston, Johnny, and Ann, the three of them quickly find the charm of Cape Cod irresistible.
Petiet has created an excellent blend of characters and immerses them with a vibrancy that creates a sense of realism regarding their tight-knit group. Never once does it seem odd that a magazine director, a hot shot designer, and a chef would be spending their days with an octogenarian gardener, a land preservationist, and various other people who had always lived right there and never do any of their roles feel forced or unnecessary.
Wash Ashore has a lot going on within its pages and truly offers a little bit of everything- history, mystery, romance, a suitably sleazy villain, ghosts (yes, really!), and even a somewhat strange secondary storyline about trying to create the most perfect clam chowder recipe. All of it combines to make a wonderfully entertaining and charming story that sees all of its parts well balanced. (Much like the decided-upon chowder recipe, which is included at the end!)
The premise of this book is fairly straightforward, and I half expected a very dry narrative that droned on with history and preservation laws, but I was so pleasantly surprised to find so much more! Each new angle that was introduced was better than the last, and while the ending was no shock by any means, it was nonetheless satisfying when you arrived.
Wash Ashore: A Tale of Cape Cod is a novel by Mary Petiet that follows Olive as she inherits her aunt’s family home and becomes immersed in all the history and traditions of the sleepy little village. Bringing along a couple of friends from Boston, Johnny, and Ann, the three of them quickly find the charm of Cape Cod irresistible.
Petiet has created an excellent blend of characters and immerses them with a vibrancy that creates a sense of realism regarding their tight-knit group. Never once does it seem odd that a magazine director, a hot shot designer, and a chef would be spending their days with an octogenarian gardener, a land preservationist, and various other people who had always lived right there and never do any of their roles feel forced or unnecessary.
Wash Ashore has a lot going on within its pages and truly offers a little bit of everything- history, mystery, romance, a suitably sleazy villain, ghosts (yes, really!), and even a somewhat strange secondary storyline about trying to create the most perfect clam chowder recipe. All of it combines to make a wonderfully entertaining and charming story that sees all of its parts well balanced. (Much like the decided-upon chowder recipe, which is included at the end!)
The premise of this book is fairly straightforward, and I half expected a very dry narrative that droned on with history and preservation laws, but I was so pleasantly surprised to find so much more! Each new angle that was introduced was better than the last, and while the ending was no shock by any means, it was nonetheless satisfying when you arrived.
May 10, 2023
One event that is completely out of your control, can change your life forever. A death in the family is often a trigger. In Mary Petiet’s “Wash Ashore,” she tells the story of Olive Adams’ awakening after the sudden death of her beloved aunt Eartha. Eartha leaves Olive her Cape Cod home, Silver Beech. The unfolding tale introduces Olive and her self-discovery as she explores her deepest values, introduces her devoted friends, and their struggles against the forces of nature, and adds a touch of the supernatural, along with a fight to save a precious natural ecosystem. Add to all these ingredients love and the search for the perfect recipe for clam chowder and the result is the perfect book for summer reading.
The calm tone of “Wash Ashore” calls up every summer vacation you’ve ever had after months of hardworking vigilance, where you finally, finally stop long enough to smell the ocean air, feel the sticky heat of the beach as the cool waves find their way to your grateful feet, and the smell of funnel cake and French fries waft by. This book is a lovely vacation whenever you read it and it fills you with the same calm you feel in an ocean breeze. I absolutely loved “Wash Ashore.”
The calm tone of “Wash Ashore” calls up every summer vacation you’ve ever had after months of hardworking vigilance, where you finally, finally stop long enough to smell the ocean air, feel the sticky heat of the beach as the cool waves find their way to your grateful feet, and the smell of funnel cake and French fries waft by. This book is a lovely vacation whenever you read it and it fills you with the same calm you feel in an ocean breeze. I absolutely loved “Wash Ashore.”
June 17, 2025
Minor piece. Didn’t capture my interest.
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