The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane
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4.1 • 43 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tranquility Falls comes a heart-stirring new novel that readers of Carolyn Brown and Ellen Hilderbrand will rejoice in, set in Miramar Bay, the idyllic seaside town where everyone gets a second chance, including a Hollywood star with a wounded heart and an insightful woman escaping a tragic past in Ukraine.
“Fans of Nicholas Sparks and inspirational fiction will enjoy Bunn.” —Booklist on Moondust Lake
Sometimes life flips the script . . .
Billy Walker is a North Carolina boy whose Hollywood star is beginning to shine. His rough past is in the rear view. Now seeing the world from the back seat of a limousine, Billy has no regrets about what he had to do, and the choices he made, to get there. But all it takes is one death-defying moment for Billy’s world to shift. When an on-set accident leaves him shaken, plagued by haunting dreams, he’s in desperate need of a rest cure. Given keys to a getaway cottage on Lighthouse Lane in Miramar Bay, he’ll regroup, relax, and recover. Yet as Billy’s dreams grow darker and more fearful, his only promise for light is in a stunning, mysterious, and uniquely gifted stranger . . .
And your next act is rewritten . . .
Mimi has never forgotten her tragic childhood in eastern Ukraine. Violence, a vanished family, abandonment, and a hard-won struggle to escape. Miramar Bay couldn’t be a more beautiful or unexpected refuge. In yoga and dance, and imbued with a talent to read the unrestful visions of others, Mimi has a seemingly divine ability to comfort. She may be everything Billy desires, but Mimi knows what Billy needs. He must confront his troubling past—and not just in his dreams. As their connection deepens, Billy finds himself falling in love, and waking up to something he’s never felt before. But when the real world comes calling again, how can he say goodbye to a woman who’s changing his life one illuminating sunrise at a time?
Poignant, powerful, and surprising, this is a love story for every wounded heart that hoped to feel again.
Customer Reviews
Three worlds in one book
Davis Bunn never disappoints. His characters are well drawn, his stories live, and his pace is never boring or forced. The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane gives a glimpse of two main characters, Mimi, the gifted Ukrainian immigrant who teaches dance and does physical therapy and Billy Rose Walker, an actor whose star is rising after an on-set accident that almost took his life. The reader gets a glimpse of three worlds. They see Ukraine, it’s people and past and future in the shadow of Russia and they also get a personal and intimate look into the art of making films. As always with Bunn, there’s an element of a third world, the unseen dimension of the human heart and soul.
I’m not sure if I own so many books by T. Davis Bunn because of his excellent skill as a writer, or because of his insightful view into nations and their histories, or because I can’t wait to find the next deft and memorable descriptive phrase…or because he speaks so well of his wife in almost every book’s “thanks to…” section.
The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane
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Billy trying to make it as a star, when it does happens, then an on set accident and needing time to heal. Nightmares again have returned and darker than before. Meeting a stranger Mimi escaping a tragic past, meets Billy, will a love come or will the call of being a star come again.
The plow didn’t flow for me, actions at times seemed forced.
Given ARC for my voluntary review and my honest opinion by Kensington and Net Galley