He grinned, the devastating kind that always took me out at the knees. With everything I have.”Įverything in me soared. He’s an ex-military, security expert and runs his own company, but before he was the badass that we know him as, he was a teenager from a small town who was madly in love with his childhood friend-turned girlfriend, Wren. Readers of Cowles books will have met Holt Hartley before, as he has popped up in a couple of her books now. The start of a new series from Catherine Cowles, this is a beautifully romantic and swoony second-chance-romance with a feisty heroine, a damaged hero desperate to make amends, drama, suspense, and an epic love story. And Holt might not be able to save me this time… As tragedy strikes again, I’m the one left in the crosshairs. Before long, my walls come crashing down and I’m just hoping that taking this second chance isn’t as reckless as it feels.īut not everyone is happy that Holt has returned. With his burning stare and lingering touches. And he doesn’t show any signs of leaving the small town that has been my refuge.Īs stolen moments turn to days, Holt’s around every corner. To get back a little bit of all we’ve lost. And he’s no longer a boy, but a man with shadows in his eyes and demons haunting him. One night-a single moment-cost me everything.
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(The last time Rebecca met someone on the Boston & Maine, her mother recalls, she came home pregnant.) Simon and Joe occupy a world of their own, swimming and boating and slipping invisibly around town. Russell ( David Strathairn), the local minister Grandma Wenteworth ( Dana Ivey), Rebecca's mother Miss Leavey ( Jan Hooks), the Sunday school teacher who endures Simon's theological insights, and Ben ( Oliver Platt), a man Rebecca meets on the train and brings home for supper. They include Simon's loutish parents, who don't like him the Rev. The other key characters could all be from Norman Rockwell paintings. "You're already a bastard, might as well be an enlightened one.'' Rebecca is a sunny, loving mother whose one lapse has, if anything, improved her character. "I don't understand why she doesn't just tell you,'' Simon says. Joe is a boy without a father his mother, Rebecca ( Ashley Judd), steadfastly refuses to name names. If you were me, you'd know, too.'' Joe and Simon are drawn together because they're both misfits. Girls don't kiss baby turtles.'' How do you know, asks Joe. When Joe tells him a local girl finds him cute, he sniffs, "She means cute like a baby turtle is cute. He is very short and very cute, and very wise about the fact of his dwarfism. Played by Ian Michael Smith with remarkable cockiness, he's the smartest person in Sunday school and possibly in town. I love everything Kate has written, so I was very eager and excited to read Of Sea and Stone. Even if it means fleeing into the territory of the Dron, the bloodthirsty barbarians of the deep.īut when Aemi witnesses firsthand an attack by the Dron, she realizes not all is as it seems below the sea.Īnd Perilous might be closer than she thinks. Even if it means impersonating her mistress. She is determined to escape, even if it means conspiring with fellow prisoner Nol, who fills her with equal parts anger and desire. Aemi is captured and taken to Itlantis, an underwater world of cities and gardens encased in glass, dazzling technology. She survives by remembering her mother's tales of home, a paradise called Perilous.īut then, black ships rise from the sea in the night. She wins spear-throwing competitions in disguise and earns slaps from her spoiled mistress by talking back. Aemi lives in a village carved from stones and surrounded by sea. |