There are YA books, "new adult" books, and now finally a book about and for grown-ups!

CAPE MAY, a novel New Yorker Joanna Matthews is rapidly approaching 60 and desperate for a change. The last remotely daring thing she did-jumping into an unconventional marriage with her best friend Brian-happened 20 years ago. Now, their life's comfortable, if routine. Joanna craves more and begins pursuing her long-deferred dream: owning and running a bed & breakfast. She's captivated by Cape May, New Jersey, America's Oldest Seaside Resort. On the bus south, she meets a novelist, and is thunderstruck when she falls passionately in love for the first time. How will her late awakening affect the future and her three-decade relationship with Brian?

"I loved Cape May...couldn't stop reading it! More sparks than Nicholas, and more moving precisely because it has the ragged edges of reality." Susan Keith, Actress, Another World, One Life to Live, and Shana on Loving

"Holly Caster has the deft ability to let us spy on her protagonist Joanna's life, love, frustration, guilt, and struggle to find that most elusive of life's qualities: happiness. She elegantly chronicles the messiness of human relationships, the painful search for self-fulfillment, and the capricious nature of second chances that are part of everyone's journey. Her characters are so achingly real that you will embrace them instantly, and you'll find you can't help rooting for them to find what they seek. Cape May is a captivating and rewarding read. Here's hoping for a sequel!" Peter Danish, Award-Winning Author of The Tenor

"This is a very romantic novel in the truest sense. The setting of Cape May is described in extreme detail and is utterly charming. If you are interested in a book about a love affair where the characters are 60 years old, this would be a great pick. After Michael finally kisses Joanna, it was nearly impossible to put down the book. The author uncovers every emotional aspect in the novel. The characters' feelings felt very real and justified." Liz Ellyn, Indulge in Life's Guilty Pleasures Book Review Blog
About the Author: HOLLY CASTER writes an entertainment column for The Nyack Villager, has written dozens of articles for employee assistance websites, and is the Editor of two journals devoted to pain management education. She is hard at work on her next novel Anne/Island/Whales. Ms. Caster lives in the lower Hudson Valley Region with her playwright husband Tom Dudzick and their two cats Alfie and Bill.
Ms. Caster knew in 9th grade she wanted to be a writer after receiving an A+ on a paper about 1930's actress Irene Dunne. That early triumphant high hooked her, and she's been writing ever since. She grew up in an apartment full of books, with a mother who read more than cooked, a father who wrote for a living, and a sister who grew up to write for a living. She married a successful playwright, and gave birth to two children who grew up and are writers. Her earliest memories involve Dick & Jane, red and blue fish, magical wardrobes, and Captain Nemo's submarine. She watched stories in her head and eventually wrote them down. (Cape May, her first novel, evolved from a mental picture of two people on a beach silhouetted against a star-filled sky.) Ms. Caster spends too much time watching films, from the 1930s through the present, would rather be in an art museum than almost anywhere, and would consider her perfect day spent in a European café with coffee and a book, resting her feet after being dazzled by Kandinski. She writes in her almost nonexistent free time, and considers herself blessed to work with words, whether her own or someone else's.