Last Summer at Maine Chance: A Novel

Last Summer at Maine Chance follows Cynthia Proctor, an economics undergraduate in 1954 who faces an uncertain future when her scholarship is redirected to a male student. As a woman from a middle-class family attending a prestigious New England college, she represents a statistical improbability in her era. When Cynthia receives an invitation to work at Elizabeth Arden's Maine Chance spa in Maine for the summer, she discovers that the experience offers lessons that extend far beyond what any classroom could teach. Through her time at the lakeside resort, she learns that investing in herself may be her most valuable option.