The List: Selected Stories From One Nantucketer's Search For Love

Everyone knows the story - a free-wheeling divorcée travels to Nantucket Island, moves into Gramma’s shuttered beach cottage and falls head over heels for a sexy young carpenter named Buck.

But what if Buck turned out to be a major commitment-phobe? And after scouring the island for a more suitable match, a global pandemic dried up any and all possible romantic connections? After all, this is reality, and like most real stories, it’s too ridiculous to be made up. Or is it?

Heartbroken and divorced, Rebecca Settar hungrily set forth on the bleak dating scene of Nantucket Island, a place where the saying, “He’s not your boyfriend, it’s just your turn,” makes jovial the act of dating from the same, small pool of single (and sometimes not single) men. Part memoir, part fiction, the author brings us along for her wild and shameless journey to finally find true love after the dissolution of her loveless marriage.

"I was sitting on a ginormous pile of short stories about dating on Nantucket and honestly, I don’t know how I ever survived it,” says the author. “So I put these stories into a collection that, if not only for me, represent an understanding and compassion for anyone else barely treading those waters.”