Courtney Walsh’s “Is It Any Wonder” is the second book in her Nantucket Love Story series, but it can be read as a standalone. The book features heroine Louisa Chambers, who must come to terms to with a personal tragedy that drastically altered her life when she was a teenager.
As a young girl and teenager, Nantucket meant one thing specifically: Cody Boggs. Both born on June 30th to parents who were already the best of friends, it seemed inevitable Louisa and Cody would have a close bond. They went from attached-at-the-hip childhood playmates to head-over-heels-in-love teenagers almost seamlessly, until one mistake of a kiss with another boy led Louisa to break Cody’s heart when they were seventeen, and which helped set in motion the events that led to Cody’s father’s death. Twelve years later, Cody is back–stationed in Nantucket with the Coast Guard and tasked with working with his ex-best friend to help improve the Coast Guard’s image after a rescue-attempt gone wrong led to one teenage boy being left in a coma. Louisa and Cody will need to put aside their differences and come together once again in order to achieve their goal, and maybe even gain some closure along the way.
