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A captivating and page-turning romance perfect for fans of Christina Courtenay and Barbara Erskine!

On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift...

It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a…

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Effie, an outcast in her Yorkshire village, rescues a baby from the ocean wrapped in a sealskin and takes it home for safekeeping.

From the beginning, the author shows Effie’s simple existence, her isolation from others, the hardships of her life, and climate, all wrapped up in an aura of magical prose. When Lachlan, a mariner, enters the story, there is a wildness about his interactions with Effie, and you feel the pull of the sea and the girl that Effie rescued.

There is a magnetism that wraps around you, as secure as the sealskin around the baby girl. I…

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German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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