My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult, Christian Fiction
Genre: Romance, Historical Romance
Content: Clean
Laura Callaway daily walks the windswept Cornwall coast, known for
many shipwrecks but few survivors. She feels like a castaway, set adrift
on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting
answers. Now living with her parson uncle and his parsimonious wife in
North Cornwall, Laura is viewed as an outsider even as she yearns to
belong somewhere again.
When ships sink, wreckers scour the shore
for valuables, while Laura searches for clues to the lives lost. She
has written letters to loved ones and returned keepsakes to rightful
owners. She collects seashells and mementos, and when a man is washed
ashore, she collects him too.
As Laura and a neighbor care for
the castaway, the mystery surrounding him grows. He has abrasions and a
deep cut that looks suspiciously like a knife wound, and he speaks in
careful, educated English, yet his accent seems odd. Other clues wash
ashore, and Laura soon realizes he is not who he seems to be. Their
attraction grows, and while she longs to return the man to his rightful
home, evidence against him mounts. With danger pursuing them from every
side, will Laura ever find the answers and love she seeks?
This
was a decent romance, with likable characters but I did not think this
was as good as some of the other Julie Klassen books I've read. Maybe it
was just me, but I didn't feel that spark between the characters that I
usually feel when I read her romances. I did enjoy the little bit of
intrigue, and the ending was very sweet, but it wasn't enough to make me
love the book as much as I wanted to.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bethany House Publishers for providing me with an ARC of this book.
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