Pocket
January 2001
On Sale: January 1, 2001
Featuring: Evangeline Worth
320 pages ISBN: 0671035746 EAN: 9780671035747 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
"Lovable" is the way Entertainment Weekly described
Susan Wilson's debut novel, and Library Journal raved,
"Beauty is wonderful...a little gem." Now the
acclaimed author delivers a stunning new tale of passion,
loss, and remembrance as the paths of a World War II wife
and a handsome stranger cross in the little New England town
known as Hawke's Cove.
The year is 1944. After the
loss of her first child, Evangeline Worth returns to her
beloved grandmothers farm in Hawke's Cove. Once the
enchanting place of her youth, this small coastal town is
now a sanctuary for her solitude. With her husband, John,
across the Atlantic on the war front, Vangie does the best
she can to put her life, and heart, back together. All of
that changes one day when a man appears on her doorstep
searching for work.
Joe Green looks able enough,
and though she wanders why he isn't in the service, Vangie
takes him in on instinct. As a rich friendship develops
between them, the Army informs Vangie that John is MIA. At
the same time, rumors in town circulate about a downed
Hellcat plane and its missing pilot. Smoothing away each
other's loneliness, Vangie and Joe fed their relationship
deepening into a forbidden passion. Then John is suddenly
found alive, and the lovers separate -- but cannot bear to
sever their bond.
In 1993, Vangie's son Charlie
lands a plum reporting assignment: to unlock the puzzle of
the recently dredged-up Hellcat in Hawke's Cove. To
investigate the fifty-year-old mystery, he heads to Hawke's
Cove, where he meets respected local Joe Green and his
daughter, Maggie. As a romantic relationship blossoms
between Charlie and Maggie, Vangie and Joe realize that they
must open up the past -- and the secrets they'd buried along
with it.
A mesmerizing tale of joy and sorrow,
misbegotten dreams and desires, Hawke's Cove is
peopled with characters who are at once mysterious and
unabashedly revealing. With a rare capacity for love and
forgiveness, they draw us into their lives through their
most private journals, letters, and inner thoughts. Susan
Wilson's tenderly crafted love story is guaranteed to leave
readers with an intense desire to explore their own hearts.
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