Books in Sarah Bowers series

Sarah Bowers and her family return to Beaufort during Sarah's sixteenth summer. She is looking forward to dates with a young fellow she met briefly the summer before. Evenings together and sailing aboard the Willa with Bruce McCoy add to her happy days of summer fun. All is well until a visitor from Ohio comes to town. All thoughts of Bruce vanish. Sadly, when the visitor leaves, Sarah finds herself spending lonely evenings "on the shelf" Seeking answers to her dilemma, Sarah turns to her dear friend, Capt. Jake, whose wisdom and advice help her learn one of life's valuable lessons.

Roaming free along the barrier islands of coastal North Carolina live wild horses known as Outer Banks ponies. They can be seen grazing on marsh grass along the shore by residents of Beaufort who are proud and protective toward their neighbors across Taylor's Creek. Summer visitors come to watch and photograph these ponies which have captured the hearts and imagination of horse lovers of all ages. In "Fifteenth Summer", people along the waterfront and on upstairs porches watch as volunteers attempt to rescue a foal in danger of losing its life. Sarah and Joshua Bowers watch anxiously as their grandfather, too, is suddenly in danger.

Sarah Bowers and her family return to Beaufort during Sarah's sixteenth summer. She is looking forward to dates with a young fellow she met briefly the summer before. Evenings together and sailing aboard the Willa with Bruce McCoy add to her happy days of summer fun. All is well until a visitor from Ohio comes to town. All thoughts of Bruce vanish. Sadly, when the visitor leaves, Sarah finds herself spending lonely evenings "on the shelf." Seeking answers to her dilemma, Sarah turns to her dear friend, Capt. Jake, whose wisdom and advice help her learn one of life's valuable lessons.

Sarah Bowers, now a young lady of seventeen, is anxious to have her portrait done by her dear friend Leland Davis. However, Sarah is shocked and dismayed to find Leland's idea of a location is a windswept beach. Barefoot, with carefully-curled hair in disarray, the girl with enormous gray eyes stares unsmiling into the camera. Her face, framed by long-stemmed sea oats bowing gracefully in the sea breeeze, becomes a point of interest in Leland's studio for years to come.

This is the second in a series of eight books featuring the life of the young lady Sarah Bowers, who spends her summers at her grandparent's home in historic Beaufort, North Carolina. The books start in her twelfth summer and end with her twenty-second birthday, graduation from college, and marriage. The book is set in the midst of World War II in the town made famous by other authors such as Nicholas Sparks in Walk to Remember. The story is a good read for teens and adults. Adult women ages twenty-five to eighty have been the largest demographic for buying the books and showing enthusiasm for purchasing more in the series. It is a good, clean read for all ages and hearkens back to an America of the 1940s and 1950s. It is historical fiction as told by lifelong resident and author Kay Salter.

Sarah Bowers, now a young lady of seventeen, is anxious to have her portrait done by her dear friend Leland Davis. However, Sarah is shocked and dismayed to find Leland's idea of a location is a windswept beach. Barefoot, with carefully-curled hair in disarray, the girl with enormous gray eyes stares unsmiling into the camera. Her face, framed by long-stemmed sea oats bowing gracefully in the sea breeeze, becomes a point of interest in Leland's studio for years to come.

Roaming free along the barrier islands of coastal North Carolina live wild horses known as Outer Banks ponies. They can be seen grazing on marsh grass along the shore by residents of Beaufort who are proud and protective toward their neighbors across Taylor's Creek. Summer visitors come to watch and photograph these ponies which have captured the hearts and imagination of horse lovers of all ages. In "Fifteenth Summer", people along the waterfront and on upstairs porches watch as volunteers attempt to rescue a foal in danger of losing its life. Sarah and Joshua Bowers watch anxiously as their grandfather, too, is suddenly in danger.