Beth Carter

Beth Carter writes women's fiction, romance, nonfiction, and children's books after earlier careers in banking and hospital marketing. Last Call At Coconuts concludes her six-novel Coconuts sequence, which began with Thursdays at Coconuts. The series follows a circle of women whose friendships gather around an island-themed bar, and the final installment places that shared refuge at risk when the business changes direction and goes up for sale. Its several storylines revisit Alex, Suzy, Hope, and their families as professional strain, parenthood, marriage, and old relationships complicate the effort to protect a familiar place. Carter's bibliography also includes standalone novels and practical nonfiction, showing a range broader than this connected series. Last Call At Coconuts uses the threatened bar as more than scenery: it holds the history of conversations through which the friends have supported one another. The book closes a six-volume community narrative by asking what, beyond ownership, makes a meeting place worth saving.