by Jean Stubbs
First published 1991
Marina Meredith arrives in Cornwall carrying the weight of her daughter's death. The coastal landscape offers refuge from her grief, but healing proves more complicated than she expected. A magnetic actor who has made Cornwall his home draws her attention and affection. Their connection awakens feelings Marina thought had died with her child. Yet the pull of this new attraction frightens her. She cannot stay in this place where she might forget her old life entirely. Marina returns to the world she left behind, determined to breathe life back into her failing marriage. She must choose between the possibility of new love and the familiar bonds of her existing life. The choice forces her to confront what she truly wants from the years ahead.
Genres: fiction, drama, contemporary, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: second-chance-romance
Setting: Cornwall
Period: contemporary
292 pages · Hardcover · St Martins Pr