A Home by the Sea
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- 2,49 €
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- 2,49 €
Publisher Description
Sometimes appearances aren't what they seem…
Grace Lindstrom has followed her fiancé across three continents, starry-eyed in love and full of hope. But when Grace realizes the life she's been living is nothing but a lie, she returns home to Summer Island, the sleepy town where she grew up, to put the pieces of her life back together.
By day, she perfects rare chocolate recipes for a new book. By night, she helps her father at his veterinary clinic—until the moment Sam Walker comes into her life. Just home from duty in Afghanistan, Sam has too much baggage of his own to deal with a heartbroken chef. But when a violent storm traps them together for a night, he learns there's more to Grace than he imagined—and suddenly, she's all that matters….
"Complex and multi-faceted…Skye has written one finely crafted, very romantic love story." —Publishers Weekly on Bride of the Mist
About the author
Christina Skye loves a good adventure. Living in Arizona gives her plenty of room to practice target shooting and to trek off-road on her motorcycle, researching the details for stories rich with “snappy dialogue” and an unerring ability to keep “the narrative energy high and the pacing swift” (Publishers Weekly). With over two million books in print, her novels appear regularly on national bestseller lists. Visit her online at www.christinaskye.com.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like a ripe peach, Skye's second knitting-themed Summer Island contemporary (after The Knitting Diaries) easily separates into two juicy halves. First comes the Washington, D.C., courtship dance of hunky bomb squad specialist Noah McLeod and luscious food historian Grace Lindstrom, both virtually unraveled by earlier grievous losses. Then Grace's adored grandfather, an old-fashioned country vet, suffers a bad fall and temporary loss of memory, and Grace returns to Summer Island, Ore., to help him. Her old friends Jilly and Caro ask her to join their new yarn shop and cafe venture, and when "lean and dangerous" Noah arrives, Grace's suppressed libido "roars into angry overdrive." Despite some hokey humor and unconvincing minor characters like Noah's tritely conceived and jerkily expressed Scots papa and Slavic mama, Skye manages to keep her complicated plots clicking along like busy knitting needles, with promises of more to come.
