Sea Glass Winter by joann Ross
Matt moved with his mother, Claire to Oregon. He's a basketball player in high school.
They had left the LA area due to the drug influence on Matt.
Love hearing the local attractions to visit when Matt is escorted around the first day of his new school, Amy who he spends a lot of time with.
Claire is a seaglass jewelry designer she blows her own pieces and gets some from the seashore. This book is up to date noting the tsunami and debris washing up on Oregon beaches.
Dillon is a veteran of the wars and is back in Oregon teaching physics and coaching basketball and loved how he could get others to engage in sports.
Love how the class gets rewarded for doing their classwork and teamwork.
This book also follows Feebee who's a chef after having lived in women's shelters after leaving an abused husband. She feels safe now.
She was just going with Ethan, a farmer when she was served papers...
Love catching up with the others in the community, so much always going on..
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

I loved this book just as much as I have loved the others in this series. The main focus of the book is the developing relationship between Claire and Dillon. Dillon left the military and took part in the Troops to Teachers program which landed him in Shelter Bay where he is the physics teacher and basketball coach. Thanks to his time in the military he is big on teamwork and is very good at getting the kids in his classes and on his team to cooperate. He knows about Matt's problems when he transfers to Shelter Bay and seems to have a handle on how to deal with him. Dillon is immediately attracted to Claire but realizes that he will have his work cut out for him to convince her to give him a chance. One thing EOD taught him was patience and he is determined to win her over. I really loved the way that he understood her concerns and also her art. Claire had moved to Shelter Bay to get Matt away from the temptations of LA. She was trying hard to deal with his bad attitude over the move and was glad that Matt had basketball to help ease the transition. She didn't expect to be attracted to his basketball coach and wasn't happy about it. She has no interest in a relationship as she focuses on Matt and his issues and on her art. But Dillon is persistent and as she finds herself more and more in his company she sees what a great guy he is. She is amazed at how completely he understands her feelings about her glass art. His attention to Matt and the effect he has on Matt's attitude creates even more feelings for him. I loved the slow, easy developing of their feelings. The passion was still there but it wasn't an overwhelming heat that ignored everything else. I loved the proposal at the end - it was great. Matt's character was accurately portrayed as a teenage boy dealing with his own issues. I liked his admitting of his own mistakes and the way he worked to live up to Dillon's expectations. He appears to have done some real maturing by the end of the book. I really enjoyed seeing the other characters from previous books. Their presence and stories were seamlessly included, not forced like some others seem to be. ( )