Bantam
July 2007
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Featuring: Sister Bernadette; Tom Kelly
352 pages ISBN: 0553805339 EAN: 9780553805338 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the
company of Tom Kelly to search for the past — and the son —
they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago
lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling
led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea
Academy on the sea-tossed Connecticut shore. For Tom,
Bernadette’s choice meant giving up his fortune and taking
the job as caretaker at Star of the Sea, where he could be
close to the woman he could no longer have but whom he
never stopped loving. And while one miracle drew them
apart, another is about to bring them together again.
For somewhere in Dublin a young man named Seamus Sullivan
is also on a search, dreaming of being reunited with his
own first love, the only “family” he’s ever known. They’d
been inseparable growing up together at St. Augustine’s
Children’s Home, until Kathleen Murphy’s parents claimed
her and she vanished across the sea to America. Now, in a
Newport mansion, that very girl, grown to womanhood, works
as a maid and waits with a faith that defies all reason for
the miracle thatwill bring back the only boy she’s ever
loved.
That miracle is at hand — but like most miracles, it can
come only after the darkest of nights and the deepest of
heartbreaks. For life can be as precarious as a walk along
a cliff, and its greatest rewards reached only by those who
dare to risk everything…for what matters most.