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With A Summer Affair, published in 2008, she moved to Little, Brown and Company. In 1993 she moved to Nantucket, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and became a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

She spent the next summer working-doing piecework in a factory that made Halloween costumes she promised herself that the goal for the rest of her life would be that she would always have a real summer. As a child, she spent summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore," until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Her books have been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with her husband and three children. Currently-lives in Nantucket, MassachuesttsĮlin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels, some 20 in all.Education-B.A., Hopkins University University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.Soon Josh is part of the chaotic household, acting as babysitter, confidant, and, eventually, something more, while the women confront their pasts and map out their futures. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's infidelity and then her own pregnancy Brenda embarked on a passionate affair with an older student that got her fired from her prestigious job as a professor in New York and her sister Vickie, mother to two small boys, has been diagnosed with cancer. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women-two sisters and one friend-make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college.