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Loading... Firefly Beachby Luanne Rice
None. Typical Rice story of family relationships. This family harbors many secrets and tragedy that affected the three sisters growing up. Caroline is the oldest and most reserved, running a small inn and caring for her sisters and mother. Clea is next and is married, the serene one and least affected by the family tragedies. And Skye is the youngest, a passionate artist, alcoholic and married to a bad man. The mother, Augusta, is reserved, pulled away from her daughters by her lingering love for her deceased husband and the events of many years ago. Along comes Joe Connor, oceanographer and treasurer hunter who is the catalyst for change in this family. (  ) punxsygal | Dec 8, 2010 |  Luanne Rice captured my attention with Safe Harbor. I have enjoyed all of her novels. They truly speak of the one thing everyone longs for........love. ( ) sanchef | Jun 19, 2010 | I really like luanne Rice books,,and this one was another good one. (  ) JustDev2 | May 25, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553573209, Mass Market Paperback)Under the summer sky, anything is possible....Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three sisters come face-to-face with the past and find in each other the courage to go on. Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered at Firefly Hill, their childhood home, Caroline thought that they had all put the past behind them. But as summer gets under way, a mysterious man arrives—a man who has the power to bring it all back.... Joe Connor was only six when his father died at Firefly Hill. Though he and Caroline had never met, the five-year-old girl reached out to him. They became pen pals and friends, until a teenaged Joe finally learned the truth about what had happened to his father that night. Now, after years of silence, Joe is suddenly here ... and Caroline still feels a connection. But she can't help but wonder if this handsome man holds the key to her family's healing—or its destruction. And in his presence, how long will she be able to guard her heart? (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:24:43 -0400) As a child, Caroline Renwick watches, horrified, while a desperate man kills himself. After she learns that the man has a young son, Joe, Caroline begins writing to him, and they become close pen pals. But several years later, when Joe is told the reason for his father's death, he turns away from her. Now, meeting as adults at Caroline's ancestral home, they have a chance to confront and heal that old wound. But what will be the emotional cost?… (more) |
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