They say you can't go home again. Well, that's just fine with Fay Davies. She shook the sand of her New Jersey shore town off her feet years ago, along with her life with her ageing and distant father, and a community that hid a tragic secret from her. Now a corporate real estate attorney, straining for the partnership just beyond her fingertips, her plans are washed away by the news that Gene has had a stroke.
Her sense of duty sends her back to Purslane Island to deal with Gene's paperwork and care. But she finds herself all at sea as the townsfolk welcome her with open arms and seem to like Gene. Fay knows this can't be right: her family has been the odd one out ever since her mother came over from Romania as a mail order bride thirty-five years before.
Despite herself, Fay is soon enmeshed in the fabric of her hometown, and in the life of Sawyer Evans, the inconveniently irresistible surfer/contractor she hires to rebuild Gene's house. But then she discovers letters that send her new-found understanding with her father crashing to the ground. Will she turn her back on him and the life she could have, or will she find the peace she's been searching for her whole life?
Genre: General Fiction
Her sense of duty sends her back to Purslane Island to deal with Gene's paperwork and care. But she finds herself all at sea as the townsfolk welcome her with open arms and seem to like Gene. Fay knows this can't be right: her family has been the odd one out ever since her mother came over from Romania as a mail order bride thirty-five years before.
Despite herself, Fay is soon enmeshed in the fabric of her hometown, and in the life of Sawyer Evans, the inconveniently irresistible surfer/contractor she hires to rebuild Gene's house. But then she discovers letters that send her new-found understanding with her father crashing to the ground. Will she turn her back on him and the life she could have, or will she find the peace she's been searching for her whole life?
Genre: General Fiction