Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her
three daughters–Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia–at Star of the Sea
Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches
art at the convent school’s beautiful seaside campus, over
which Honor’s sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette
Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could
have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with
the stunning news that she was getting married. Nor could
anyone have guessed how that sudden announcement would soon
change all their lives forever.
Eleven years ago,
Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love,
the perfect life. Then her husband, brilliant photographer
and sculptor John Sullivan, broke her heart–and tore their
little family apart. Now, hearing of Regis’s impending
marriage, John has ended his self-imposed exile and returned
to the family he’s always loved more than anything on earth.
What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his
abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third
who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there
is Honor herself–and a passion that may have been
interrupted but that has never waned.
Some things,
like sandcastles, don’t survive the changing tides. But
love, family, and friendship–just as fragile–have a way of
standing against anything. It will take nothing short of a
miracle to heal the rift between father and daughter,
husband and wife, the past and the present–but a miracle is
exactly what is in the works at Star of the Sea Academy. The
only question is: Do you believe?